HELP!!! Computer Crashes, iTunes Problem...

My hard drive on my computer had failed and everything on it was lost, including my library for iTunes. I had to have the hard drive replaced. The problem I am having is I want to add my songs from my iPod into the new iTunes library. When I connect my iPod to my computer, I get a pop up screen that wants me to either erase all of the songs on my iPod and update it with the new library, or to transfer only purchases to the new library. Is there any way that I can put my songs from my iPod onto my new hard drive?

piff and Sara,
Forgive my intrusion, but it seems that you don't understand the purpose of the Library piff. The Library is simply a master list of every song, podcast, internet stream, video and whatever else you have added to iTunes. If you delete something from the Library, it's deleted everywhere.
If you need to view your Library in a way that better suits you, click on one of the column titles such as name, album or artist to sort the order in which your stuff is displayed. If you control-click on those titles, you can add or subtract which columns you want to see.
If that still doesn't help you, click on the browse button in the top right corner to allow you to view everything by an individual genre, artist and/or album.
Along with Sara's previous suggestions, might I also suggest that you create a smart playlist that includes only recently added items and which are removed from that playlist once they are in another playlist. This will help you differentiate between the stuff you've recently added and already relabeled and the stuff you still need to get to.
Hope this helps too,
NickelTVGS

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