Complete loss of library

Hi All
New to this and I wonder if anyone can help. Our P.C has been on the blink recently and whilst I was away my partner decided it was about time it was fixed and sent it off to a P.C repair guy. The guy said that the registry was shot to pieces, blah blah and had to be re-formatted, blah blah. Anyways, it has come back and when I started it up all my apps were gone including iTunes. When I re-installed iTunes, my library quite obviously wasn't there!! However, all my albums are still on my my iPod Touch, which I had with me.
Does anyone know how to get my music from my iPod onto my computer? I have tried simply highlighting the tracks and draggng them over but that doesn't work. Some of the albums I have on hard copy but others (many others!) I don't.
Please HELP!!!
Cheers
SanchoPanza81

iTunes will only let you copy your purchases directly from an iPod to the computer, you'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
For everything else (including purchases) there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod Touch or iPhone. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer data (such as playcounts and ratings), movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well.
A selection of iPod/iPhone to iTunes utilities:
Senuti Mac Only (iPod Touch & iPhone compatible)
SharePod Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
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iPodRip Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
Music Rescue Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Music Liberator Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iGadget Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iRepo Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Access Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
TouchCopy Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)

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