Songs visible in iTunes, but not in iPod

Hi.
I just got an adaptec firewire card for my 3rd generation 20Gb iPod. I have been able to 'load' all my songs into it, so that they show up in iTunes. Yet, after I disconnect it from the computer, the songs are not there.
Some background and things that I found odd along the way and that may give you a clue of what my problem is:
I originally loaded about 30 songs from my home computer using a USB port (I didn't load more because this drains the battery of the iPod and the process stops).
I never got a drive for my iPod when I open "My Computer"
Originally, I only had (my guess) .2 Gb of usage, yet, the bar at the bottom of iTunes indicated something like 20Gb of use, 19.5 Gb free (again, this is a 20Gb iPod). When I loaded the files, the bar moved to approx 25Gb used, 15 Gb free.
At some point I asked for an automatic loading of the playlist, which prompted a message stating that my previous music would be deleted. I had no problem with that, so I clicked okay. Yet, as of now, the only music I do see from the iPod is the one I had before.
Every time I connect the iPod, iTunes spends about 10 minutes with a message "Updating, don't disconnect your iPod". Nevertheless, there is a big checkmark in the iPod stating "OK to disconnect"
Finally, I went to manual loading again. I transferred a single playlist. It took another ten minutes and then I got an "unknown error (-36)".
So, to recap, iTunes says that I have about 5Gb of music and lists all songs (about 1200). iPod only sees the original 30 songs.
Your help will be appreciated. Thanks
Pedro

Thanks, b noir, for taking a crack at my problem (the original message in the thread). It turns out that the -36 error code was a red herring, and I probably created it by my more convoluted ways of trying to crack the problem.
At any rate, I figured out what my problem was and I decided to post the solution here in case somebody else finds it in the future.
My problem was that songs 'loaded' to the iPod in the sense that there was a folder popping up in iTunes called "Xis' iPod" that listed all the songs I intended to transfer. Yet, after disconnecting, the songs weren't in the iPod.
The problem stemmed from the fact that my computer is networked. My last 'real' drive is drive F. The first network drive is drive G. Apparently (this is my speculation) when I plugged the iPod, the computer assigned the label 'drive G' to both the iPod and the network drive. Thus, iTunes actually created a folder in my network drive called "Xis' iPod" and all the songs were indeed there. That explains the slow loading of songs and the fact that the iPod was ready to disconnect when iTunes was telling me not to do it. Luckily, yesterday I got a new laptop, and when I was using the network drive to transfer files from the desktop to the laptop, I noticed that the network drive had an extra 6Gb of usage. I looked there and, sure enough, the folder was present.
So, to solve the problem, all I did was to remove the computer from the network and reboot. Everything worked well after that (well, the iPod froze upon connecting, but resetting it did the job).
I hope this may help somebody else.
Pedro (Xis) Ortigueira

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