Why can't I access the songs on my ipod after the software update?

I own three ipods (60G video, 30G video, and 4g mini) which I load on three different computers. I manually update them. I load music from my CD collection and they eacg have different music on them. The 30G was a recent purchase (used) and the first time that I hooked it up it required that I update my software (I have only done this on one of my computers). After the update, when the Ipod loads, the itunes shows the number of songs on the ipod but will not display the actual songs. None of the songs on the ipod are in any of my existing libraries as I tend to clear the librarries after loading the songs so that i do not fill up my computers with this stuff. Is there some setting that I should change to be able to view and modify these old songs on my Ipod short of blowing them all out and starting AGAIN? My Ipod video probably has 8,000 songs on it so I am not thrilled about starting again. Also, i can no longer play them through my computer because it will not pull up the list. Any advice would be appeciated. Thanks

Such a simple fix. I really did look at a lot of reference stuff to find the answer but could not.
true story ... back in the day, it took me about 20-30 minutes of quiet desperation to work out what the new rules for this were with the 7.0.x versions ...
i defer to Zevoneer when it comes to recovering music off an ipod. his post here may be of some assistance:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3741395#3741395

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