Started w/ Folder & Exclamation Point-All Downhill From There

I have been at this for hours and hours...PLEASE rescue me.
I finally got rid of the folder and exclamation point after the 4th R kicked in. I didn't want to restore and lose everything, but that's what happened anyway! It took forever to get the updater to work and now I'm in worse shape than ever. My iPod was in iTunes until I ejected it. I was expecting to listen to music when, to my horror, I found that everything was gone. I reconnected so I could drag my music back in, but now my iPod has disappeared from iTunes and my computer as well. I've tried the Apple website suggestions to no avail. I can't understand what's going on. I'm using Windows XP and the last time I restarted a message came up saying that the FAT 32 file associated with E: had dirty volume or something like that. I'm guessing this is all connected somehow. Bottom line...I just want to listen to my iPod.

Hello,
Try doing this:
Connect your iPod, and go onto your administrator account on your computer.
Click on CtrlAltDelete to pull up the Tadk Manager. Try ending this process: "iPod Service.exe" under the "Processes" tab in Task Manager.
Open the iPod Updater again. Try to restore your iPod now.
If the iPod Updater is freezing on "initializing" for more than a few minutes, then post back if that didn't do it yet.
Then, assign your iPod a different drive letter following the steps below (first eject your iPod through the Safely Remove Hardware program):
Go to your administator account.
1 - Don’t plug in your iPod yet.
2 - Go to "START -> Control Panel -> Admin Tools (if you don't see this, click on "classic view" button on the left panel) -> Computer Management."
3 - Click on the "Disk Management" button in the left panel area.
4 - Now, with "Computer Management" and Control Panel windows opened, reset your iPod, and connect it.
5 - Right-click on your iPod's listing there (after a few moments when it gets recognized in this drive window), and click on "Change Drive letter and Paths". Then the "Change..." button.
Here's what it should look like:
Assign your iPod the letter "M" "N", "O" or the like (further along in the alphabet).
For more details, see this article:
Windows confuses iPod with network device / Changing drive letter
I hope this helps you,
-Kylene
EDIT: pac_80, I happened to have the "reply" page minused for about an hour, and came back to the computer, posted the reply, and I didn't know you'd posted. So disregard if this post is the same as what you said.

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