Songs missing on itunes reinstall-ipod importing?

Apple support made me reinstall to try to fix a problem. Unfortunately, I probably did something wrong and only about 1/2 of my songs are still on my hardrive and back in itunse. (I fear I may have deleted some when completing erasing iTunes). However, the good news is that all of the songs are in my iPod. I just can't figure out how to transfer from iPod to iTunes. Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.

I have a new 30GB ipod & I am encountering a similar problem – my ipod refuses to play
half of the CD album titles that are on it even though they play perfectly ok in itunes [exactly as Lyn describes].
I have 19GB of MP3s on my computer [which were all created in the same way with the same non-apple software etc] which I put into the itunes library. For some reason beyond my comprehension only half of these arrived with all their details while the rest were missing the CD title, artist & Genre information & it is these songs which don’t play. I updated all of the missing info using the itunes “get info”[a very very long process] & they work/ play perfectly - except on my ipod! So I went through the 5 R’s download the latest updates & restored my ipod etc but nothing’s worked. Still the same songs/CD’s won’t play on my ipod. Help!
Actually I’m beginning to wonder if I might have a sick little ipod because it also manages to freeze about 3 to 4 times per day [I use it with speakers for background music at work so it’s on none stop for about 8 to 10 hours or more per day]!?
ipod 30GB Windows XP

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Zevoneer wrote:
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boardHwSwInterfaceRev: 0x000B0005 (0.0.11 5)
bootLoaderImageRev: 0x00000000 (0.0 0)
diskModeImageRev: 0x00000000 (0.0 0)
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I too can't believe that Apple has pubically done nothing to admit there are "issues" with iTunes 7. All of management must be too busy congradulating themselves for a job well done releasing wonderful new product with the revolutionary iTunes 7. Shouldn't these people be working on Windows Vista?
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