Touch appeared to be wiped of music, problem now resolved in curious way

There's a bit of a story here. I have a 32 gig current model Touch, pretty much fully loaded with music, podcasts, and apps and it has the current BIOS revision. It has 1.3 gig available. My primary computer is a MacBook Pro that was sent off a week ago to have the drive replaced, I made a clone image on an external drive. This is the one used to download and sync my Touch with, hopefully it'll return today.
So I'm currently using a 13" MacBook. I didn't try to sync my Touch to it as it doesn't have the music library that my MBP has. I've downloaded a couple of podcasts via the Touch's iTunes, that's it.
Friday night I was working and wanted to listen to some tunes, so I plugged my Touch in to the MB. It showed my playlists but wouldn't let me play anything, so I unplugged it and went tuneless.
Last night I was going to drive down the mountain to see a movie and wanted to listen to some podcasts. There weren't any.
That's a bit of an overstatement. It had six podcasts that I had downloaded via the Touch's iTunes. Everything else was gone. 1200 songs, 30 videos, all gone. If you press Artists or whatever, you get the message that your library is empty and that you can download music from the iTunes store.
So today I boot my MB from the MBP's image to re-sync and re-load everything back to my Touch. The system boots, I turn off my wireless connection to prevent updates, I start iTunes on the laptop, and after it's fully loaded I plug in my Touch. I expand the Touch in iTunes and all my playlists are there.
So on my Touch I open Music, and I get the "music library is updating" message, a few minutes later everything is there.
I don't know what happened, but at least my library is back without having to re-sync. The one thing that I did not do after my apparent loss of music was to power cycle my Touch, it's possible that would have brought everything back. Another interesting thing is that the available space didn't change between the time the library was apparently wiped and after the library indexing rebuilt itself.
Very curious.

Just wanted to inform people about a weirdness that I experienced.

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