All the songs are gone....

I recently moved away to college and brought my new laptop with me. When i went to open my songs from my ipod mini to the library in my laptop it had a weird message that said something like this library will be the main server , and i clicked yes. Suddenly every single song is gone from my ipod. I already unplugged it and tried again, but all the songs were still gone. My home computer still has the songs but its four hours away... Is there anyway to get the songs back?

Hi Amy
I hate to say it, but unless you have the songs in your iTunes library on your new laptop, then there's no way of getting them back until you can get home.
When you connected to your laptop it recognised that this was the first time the iPod had been connected and wanted to make the laptop the main library. By clicking yes you allowed the iPod to be updated from your laptop which I'm assuming has no music on it?...hence, no music on your iPod.
See this article for future reference:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61675

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