Missing music files in iTunes, but music IS on my iPod

I have a very large number of the exclamation points in my Music category in iTunes. The music is also missing from my harddrive - so I can't just "relink" it. Some of it is on a backup from months ago - but not all of it.
However, the vast majority of it IS on my iPod. So how can I move those files back to iTunes? I tried the simplistic approach of deleting the music listing from the Music category in iTunes, thinking it would be fooled into believing that the music on my iPod is a new purchase and it would transfer it back over. But before I hit the final delete it gives me the warning that this music will now be deleted from my iPod and that is the LAST thing that I want given it's my only copy.
Does anybody have ideas as to how to get these missing files from my iPod back to iTunes?
Thanks!
Kim

I should also add that not all of the music is from iTunes so I cannot just re-download. Some IS from iTunes, some is from Amazon in the days before I had an iPod and some are my own CDs.

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