Help!  Erased Hard Drive and can't get my library from my iPod to my HD

HELP! I recently had to erase my hard drive and start fresh. I have Mac OS X 10.3.9 cleanly installed. I now have the problem that I can't get my music library from my iPod to iTunes. Many, many hours went into transferring my CD collection into iTunes. I can't fathom going through all of that again! Any suggestions would be appreciated!
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

You can download the songs from your iPod back to your HD with several freeware programs, try out Senuti:
http://wbyoung.ambitiouslemon.com/senuti/
I had the same problem and after installing my OS new i was able to copy back all the songs from my iPod to iTunes. Wasn't able though to keep the playlists, but maybe you find a way how to copy the songs including playlists.
Hope that helped,
Oliver

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