3rd Gen iPod wiped out after installing it on someone else's laptop

Hi
I'm freaking out here. I recently moved to London from South Africa where i used to manage all my music and had my 20Gb iPod registered. Now that i've moved to London i tried to register my iPod on my new laptop...i put the cd in first and continued with the installation but now that it's finished - my iPod had been restored and all my music is gone!!!!!!!! I am trying to stay calm. I installed the new iTunes and once that was done it still had the audacity to offer me the option of restoring my iPod to the factory settings! What have i done? all the money, all that time..where is my music collection? PLEASE HELP! I don't want a brand new iPod i want my music back!!!

no no, it's not about transferring music from my iPod to the laptop. I have moved to London so i'm using a new laptop altogether and when i tried to register my iPod on the new pc it wiped my iPod clean of all the music i had on it...yes i have the music backed-up but only back home in South Africa, 10 000 miles away
why would it restore the factory settings when i registered it on the new laptop? especially when it never warned me about this or prompted this action
furthermore my iPod was only plugged in for a few minutes which would make it impossible to delete 18Gb of music in that short a time
where the f*ck is my music?!!!

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