hey audities - anyone out there have experience rescuing an ipod from being
corrupted by itunes?

my mac at work is notorious for blowing up/corrupting/erasing data, and sure
enough, today it suddenly failed to recognize my ipod. the error message said
I would need to "restore factory settings" on the ipod (wiping it clean of
data) to get it to work.

i just tried the ipod on my home powerbook -- same result. the evil office mac
has apparently corrupted the ipod somehow. the songs are still on it, but it
can't be viewed by itunes. and of course i don't have a library that's synched
to it, so it's not trivial to recreate what's on the ipod.  the songs came
from all over the place and some of them have since been deleted from their
various host computers.

has this happened to anyone else? is there any way for me to rescue what's on
the ipod before i reformat it, or get it to work with itunes without having to
reformat?

it's enough to make a girl run screaming back to microsoft, i tell ya.

any help at all would be appreciated...
andrea