Downloaded Music Missing

I had to reinstall my hard-drive because it fried. When i re-installed iTues and synched up my iPod it eraed all of my previously downloaded music.
How do I reacquire these tunes -- I had copied about 700 of my own songs from my CD's but also had about 200 songs downloaded from iTunes
Doesn't Apple have a history of my downloads and can't it just resend to my iPod music library if I request it?
DP

Hi there,
You can always redownload media directly from the iTunes Store. Take a look at the article below form more information.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Hope that helps,
Griff W.

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