Crashed hard drive now I need to Snyc ipod.....

Hopefully someone can help. My computer crashed and I lost all my songs saved on my hard drive. I re-installed a new hardrive and re-loaded itunes onto it. I downloaded the new software (7.2.whatever it is...). I can hook my ipod up to itunes and I can get all my songs and download new songs to my ipod and I can even copy all the songs I bought off of itunes (like 400) but I can't save the songs I burned from my c.d.'s to my library onto itunes. So basically if something happened to my ipod I would loose all my songs I burned from my c.d.'s that took me like 3 months and is over 3,000 songs!! (needles to say, this would suck big time).
If I "sync" my ipod will it take the blank playlist from itunes and erase all my music on my ipod or will it take my library on my ipod and copy it to my itunes leaving my ipod in tact? That is my question. Is there another way to back up all my music from my ipod?
Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Tank

It will if you select "Yes" to replace your library with the new one. If you select no then the songs will remain. I don't have the hyperlinks handy for extracting the songs off the pod so you can then add the tracks back to the library. If you use the search option and use "ipod to PC" you should find a thread that has those links for you.
May I suggest you adopt a backup strategy? You should never only hold the songs on the pod as the sole storage unit. My library is 130gb and I have 4 copies of it, two are working copies (work & home) and the other two are backups that are on different media types.

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