All songs on iPhone just disappeared?

After visiting the itunes store on my iphone (4, iOS 5), all of my 2,500 songs disappeared. I'm unable to sync more that a dozen or so songs from my itunes list of over 4,000 songs. All the songs on the itunes list can be played on my computer without an issue. I can even see all of the songs when my iPhone is connected, but they all have exclamation points next to the (under the phone, not on itunes itself). Any ideas?

Short answer: only about half of the songs on my iPod are still in the iTunes library (not by choice, but oh well)
It's ok though, I've managed to almost fix it (the only problem now is that those songs that had remained are now doubled up - but that is way better than losing the rest of them, so it's alright for now).
Thank you for taking the time to respond though!

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