After iTunes upgrade songs are deleted from iPod

Last night I was prompted to upgrade iTunes, and I complied and did the upgrade. Today when I went to the gym at lunch I noticed that all but 2 of my Exercise playlist songs were gone from the iPod. They still show up on my laptop in iTunes, but they aren't on my iPod anymore. This happened after the software upgrade and nothing else has changed. I agreed to let iTunes be the default multimedia player when I did the upgrade. Also, the iTunes software says "Update complete" but the iPod itself NEVER stops synching up and always has the message "Do not disconnect." I also receive a message saying "Some of the songs were not copied to the iPod because you are not authorized to play them on this computer." BUT I DID PURCHASE THE SONGS, FROM ITUNES EVEN. ALL THE SONGS STILL SHOW UP IN MY PURCHASED ITUNES FOLDER! So it's the same laptop I've always had, same one I originally loaded the software too and same one that I purchased the songs from, and the same iPod, and yet now when I sync them it says I'm not allowed to have those songs. Please FIX THIS!!!!! It's really irritating to me to have to spend time on this, and even more irritating to me that I had to sign up for TWO NEW ACCOUNTS just to only be able to use a discussion board for technical assistance caused by YOUR SOFTWARE.
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If you play a song from your I-Tunes Library that you bought since your update, it should prompt you to reauthorize the computer. After this you will be able to add those songs to your IPOD by clicking update. I think this is a poor design. It took me doing it a few times to figure out what was going on. I-Tunes could be totally user friendly, if first apple would poll users first instead of letting those dipstick progammers have all the input into I-Tunes. I would guess that Apple loses 3 customers for every one gained due to the number of problems they have with each "New" I-Tunes release. But hey Mr. Jobs just tracks profits and sales. Not concerned about the user who can't play his music.

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