Can not sych iPod after Windows XP re-install..error not enough free space

My laptop required a re-install of Windows XP. Now i receive an error stating iPod cannot be synched because there is not enough free space to hold all of the items in the iTunes library (19.35 GB requried, 3.06 GB available).
Since nothing has been added to the iTunes library (that I know of) how is this possible?
What do i have to do to correct this?
Thanks

I was talking about free space on the ipod.
a normal synch did not work.
I believe I have found the what is wrong, but not the actual cause of the problem.
it appears that my itunes library has included every song and video on my computer, even though they were not in itunes before the re-install of the OS. Further, many albums have duplicated themselves in the itunes library. It looks like i will have to go through the entire library in itunes and remove everything that shouldn't be there and remove all of the duplicates.
thanks

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