Computer Crash/Itunes Reinstall

The hard drive of the machine I use itunes on just took a dump. Once I get the machine back in working order how do I go about getting my music back into itunes. Most of my music I can recover from an exernal hard drive but about 20 or 30 newer songs I had not backed up to the external HD. Everything plus the newer stuff is on my Ipod. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
TJ

TJ,
Yes, you need to copy the iDump.exe to the iPod.
Now when I connect my iPod to a fresh installation of iTunes I get this popup window:
The iPod "Ben Jr's iPod" is synced with another iTunes library. Do you want to erase this iPod and sync with this iTunes library?
So I can only imagine that you will get the same message. Just make sure that you hit "Cancel" and you should be fine. There will be a quick "Syncing iPod" in the iTunes window, so don't freak out, it lasts like a second. Then you can "Enable disk use".
Now TJ please remember that I'm no expert, and this whole thing is making me nervous. I would hate for you to loose 20-30 songs because of me. I have two laptops, one with XP and one with Vista. I'm now testing this whole thing out on the XP laptop to make sure that the information that I'm giving you is correct, so I am testing this all out with you.
One thing that happened on the XP computer that didn't happen on the Vista machine is that when I double clicked on the iDump icon in the iPods directory the program opened behind the Explorer window, so at first I was like "What happened?"
So I minimized Explorer and saw iDump there waiting for me to select a language.
Now hurry up and tell me what happened.
BenJr

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