Help for an idiot - ipod syncing in internet cafes

I recently had to upgrade my old ipod to an ipod touch after a few technical issues and was able to sync my music from my library on my laptop at home.
Unfortunately since then I have went travelling and am currently in New Zealand. Well, I was in an internet cafe and had just bought a few apps for the first time and on the itunes apps page under my ipod touch I pressed the sync button to sync all the apps - this had the great effect of adding in all the apps but deleting my music. Now this probably my fault somehow although I've used itunes for years and never had problems.
On the plus side I have my old ipod with me, but not my laptop so don't have my music library. Is there an easy way to transfer the files between the two ipods as I can't use my old one - it has a battery life of about 5 minutes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Well, I can tell you the issue that happened.
What you did is you synced to a different computer, and a public one at that. As a word of caution, never make purchases or sync with a public computer. If you accidentally save your account login information, anyone who uses the computer may be able to make purchases with your account. What happened to you is your iPod content now mirrors the cafe computer, which had just those apps. This is what it does for any auto-sync, match the computer you are syncing with.
A better option for downloading content on your touch, is to simply find a wi-fi hot spot, and either access the iTunes Store or App Store from your device directly and download it directly.
As for transferring the music, there is no way to sync content between the two devices. You COULD hypothetically put your music from your iPod onto a computer, and then sync your touch back up with that, but getting your music from iPod to computer requires additional software and possibly a lot of trouble. The easiest way would be to wait until you can access your laptop and sync your touch back up with that, restoring all of your content.
To learn more about transferring content from your iPod back to computer, try a google search regarding that. I don't know much about it, maybe someone else here can help more.

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