Computer Crashed What Happens to Songs on my Nano

My computer crashed and I brought it in to be fixed. I paid extra money to have my music, photos, documents put onto a disk. When I got my computer back only 35 out of 300 songs were on it. I was able to load those songs into the ITunes library. If I plug my Nano into ITunes will I lose all the other 265 songs that are currently on the Nano? I set Itunes to not automatically sync. I do not really care if those songs are in my library I just want them saved on the Nano. Also will I be able to add new songs?

Copying from iPod to Computer threads...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5044027&#5044027
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=893334&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432&#797432
Also these useful internet articles...
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/
http://playlistmag.com/secrets/2006/12/twowaystreet20/index.php
http://playlistmag.com/help/2005/01/2waystreet/
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