Weird iPod app Problem

When I go to the iPod app in my iPhone, it says that there is no content. But, after I have bought a song in the iTunes WiFi Music Store and then tap the black "Purchased" button in the Downloads area that brings you to the Purchased playlist in the iPod app, I can view everything on my iPhone -- so the content is being synced. I can also view through iTunes that the content is being synced. I have tried to rebuild my iTunes library. I really have no idea what's going on. It's just when I tap the orange iPod button that I can't view any of the content.
I'm running Leopard, by the way, and the latest version of iTunes.

my problem in iphone is when im listening to music on ipod the volume goes down. The volume is full in the settings. Only after I restart the phone it becomes normal. But again when I access the sounds settings the volume goes down again…
can some1 help with this… ???
my speakers are not working… even when the headphones are not connected.. its 1 week now and im still unable to listen music from the speakers.
What may causing this… ??

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Last night, I plugged my iPod touch (1G) into my MacPro to add some new music. This is when things got weird!
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Try restarting the iPod:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430
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I have downloaded audiobooks. Manually synced my iphone, and they appear to be on the device when viewing on itunes. But the ipod App on the phone is empty..

Hi, I am going crazy with frustration. THis is the first time I have tried to download podcasts to my (partner's) iphone.
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Having gone round and round in circles I'm fairly confused over what happened when. But I got scared when I tried to Apply settings and kept being told that this would Erase and Sync. ERASE?   Was also told that I wasn't connecting to the correct library, which baffled me. How did I end up with 2 libraries? Isn't Apple supposed to simplify this stuff? Was told that clicking Apply would mean files not downloaded to the Mac would be deleted. ***?
I got scared by all these messages and so paid £20 for an app that allows me to transfer files from the iphone to the Mac, because I seemed to be in danger of losing precious photographs.   I actuallly own an Android phone, and all I have to do is connect it to my windows laptop and it behaves like any other storage device, allowing me to copy files back and forth.   But this is not possible with the iphone. It's a closed device. Hence the need for software to allow this simple procedure.
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I have found a lot of people have this problem, on other forums. But there are no definitive answers. Just confusion and frustration.   I would be SO grateful if someone could give me idiot-proof advice on how to deal with this. My partner is counting on me to sort this out, as he desperately needs audiobooks on his iphone so he can decompress from work stress and do some exercise!   As the barely technical-literate one, it's down to me to fix this!
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Hi everyone, I am having problems with playing podcasts and music on my iphone 4 (IOS 4.3.5 8L1). The symptom is that the podcast skips or doesn't play at all. Music is similar.
I have had the phone replaced by Apple once, and have been to the genius bar 3 times and spent hours on the phone to Apple support.
I have done DFU restores on the phone and downloaded the entire IOS update several times, the firewall, AV and ad aware all disabled on the computer (windows 7 BTW) during the download of both the IOS and subsequent podcasts.
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The podcasts all play correctly on iTunes, and also on my iPod.
I have downloaded the entire podcast library several times to eliminate the remotest possibility that they are corrupt (this would manifest by them not playing correctly in iTunes/iPod I would imagine as well).
I have had a iPhone 3GS for a while and also an iPod, so I am familiar with the products, and never had a problem.
I have logged a case with Apple and am now at my wits end, because it seems that getting any sort of ownership is a real problem.
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