Hard drive crash, save mp3's on ipod

Ok, so I guess the title pretty much say’s what is going on. I had all my mp3’s on a hard drive that died. How do I get the mp3’s off of my ipod and back onto my computer again without loosing the mp3’s?
I had iTunes directory set up on that hard drive so I guess I can change the itunes path, but how do I plug in the ipod and get everything off of it?
Ipod 5th gen, OSX 10.4.3, Power Mac G4

This should help: "Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod - Rescuing your music when your hard drive goes phhht" http://playlistmag.com/help/2005/01/2waystreet/

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Sorry this is going to be long, as I want to give some background, because I would love to hear opinions about this:
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Now the first one, I was having hard-drive troubles, and hadn't been synced in a while, so unfortunately I think the product just doesn't last very long.
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Okay, by looking at my previous posting in this forum, it has apparently only been 2 1/2 years since I got my last iPod.

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