Does restoring from backup overwrite current library with backed-up one?

My external hard drive died a sudden and mysterious death, so I am cobbling my music collection back together from backup DVDs and my iPod.
Can someone please tell me if restoring from backup DVDs will overwrite my current library with the backed-up one? The DVDs are several months old, so I do not want to overwrite my current library - I need to be able to see what I'm still missing after I restore from the DVDs.
Thanks

Well, I want to restore the backed-up songs, but I still want to be able to see the songs I am missing (that I have acquired since I backed up).
So I don't want to replace my current library (currently showing all exclamation points because everything is missing) with the one from December 2007 (when I last backed up), because then all the songs I have acquired since December 2007 will no longer be listed in my library. I just want to restore the individual songs to my current library, so that I can continue to track down the songs still showing exclamation points. I hope that makes sense.

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