Why are my albums disappearing on itunes?

Every time I sync my ipod and iTunes all but 6 or 7 albums disappear on iTunes, but all my albums and playlists remain on my ipod. I then have to manually add them back in to iTunes by finding them on my laptop.
It's done it twice today and both times the albums that remain in iTunes are different each time but the ipod has all my music on.
How do I stop this doing it?

What iOS is non the iPod?
Are the apps compatible with the iPod model.iOS?
Many developers when they updated their apps to support iOS 5 and 6 dropped compatibility for iOS 4.2.1 and earlier. You can only get the latest version from the app store.

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