Cannot download songs to ipod from my itunes library

I am new to this! After purchasing my shiny new ipod nano 4 days ago I successfully installed itunes and ipod on my windows XP. I purchased 26 songs and successfully updated ipod. Last night I purchased 10 more songs, updated and attempted to back up the library on a CD. Here is where I really screwed up...I did not disconnect ipod from my computer. I was told I was not authorized to burn a CD. I then went to a program on the computer that was already present (I think it is called realplay) and attempted to transfer my files in to that library and burn a CD with that program. Well, this seemed to occur but still I could not burn a CD. I think this did somthing to my itunes library. Why? Well, the computer completely froze. After about 45 minutes of attempting to restart my computer etc, I shut down the computer completely and then disconnected ipod. I rebooted and the computer was running fine but all of my music was erased from ipod. However, my itunes library seems intact. I attempted to update the ipod again starting over and nothing will transfer to ipod. I did the "R"s and it still not updating.
I thought perhaps the "other" program was blocking the process so I want back and follwed directions to have "realplayer" recognize ipod and transfer songs from there...no go.
I don't know if I have changed the file formats and ipod doesn't recognize them or if everything is corrupted. As you can probably tell I am fairly computer illiterate...all I want to do is work out to my playlist.
Any ideas about what is going on?

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Give this article a spin:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93360
If that doesn't help, repost any reoccuring issues and I'll try to help.
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