Won't recognize Music

I have about 7GB's of music on my Ipod Video and it worked fine for 5 months. Then, one day I connect to my computer, and iTunes pops up and it looks like my Ipod has no music on it. So I disconnected, and sure enough, there is no music on my Ipod. I reset my iPod and restarted my computer and checked again. Still no music. But here's the weird thing, my Ipod still has all the music files on it, it just doesn't recognize it. In the settings menu, it tells me that 7GB's of storage has been used, but all my music folders are empty!
I put some more music on my Ipod, and it worked fine for one day, the next day it was gone again!
Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions?

My music is there in iTunes, but when i click on my Ipod, it's completely blank. Except for my pictures, the pictures are still there.
And no, it's set up for manual update.
If I look at my Ipod through windows explorer, the actual files are there on my Ipod but Ipod doesn't recognize it as music.
Weird huh?

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