HELP i've lost 2000 songs in a click of a button!

i bought an external hard drive and transfered all of my itunes library over to it. I just went onto itunes and purchased a few songs, and it asked me about syncing- i said yes. I've just checked my ipod and i only have 8 songs (that i purchased) on it. over 2000 songs have come off it. I can still see them on the itunes library, but they wont sync.
I assume that perhaps something is pointing at the wrong drive and i am very worried that i've really messed up
PLEASE SOMEONE HELP! 8 SONGS!!!! It'd be funny if i werent panicking!!!
THanks in advance guys

It sounds like all your music still exists on your computer. Essentially you hid your music files from iTunes when you moved it. Since iTunes uses a database file to store all the info about your music and it can find that file it knows all your songs and show that in the library pane. Included in this info is the location of the music and since you moved it iTunes can't find the actual music file. If you try to play a song in iTunes it will likely show an exclamation point which is the "I can't find this song" alarm. To solve your problem I suggest following the instructions located here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305451
Once iTunes can locate your music files then connect your iPod and iTunes will transfer all the music back.

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