Computer crashed, can't transfer old songs to new harddrive. Help?

My old Dell w/ Windows XP crashed and Dell sent me a new harddrive that I installed on my computer. All my songs are on my IPOD Nano (3rd Gen) and I want to transfer the music from my Nano to the computer with the new harddrive, but when I hook up the Nano to the computer I only see a faded image of the songs and I cannot download them to the computer or play them from my computer. How do I get the songs on the Nano onto my new harddrive? All the songs were either previously purchased through the I-Tunes store or downloaded off my old CD's, there were no other sources for my music.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Al

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