HELP! Lost Playlists, Lost Podcast, Lost iPod

I recently upgraded my system to 10.4.3 from 10.3.9. My Itunes library has always been on a different hard drive (disk#2) from my old start up disk(disk#1). I had to migrate everything to a new startup disk (disk#3) as well (out of room) before I upgraded the software. I used SuperDuper to copy everything from the old system and make it bootable, everything worked fine. Then I upgraded the system. ugh.
When I first started up iTunes, it did not have any of my songs there. So I went to preferences and chose the Itunes library from the second hard drive (disk#2) where it has always resided.
I discovered my music, but not my playlists nor my podcasts.
Then when I plugged my ipod in, Itunes doesn't recognize it and wants to erase it and restore the whole thing.
"This Ipod is synced with another Itunes Library and can not be synced with two Libaries, do you want to erase it and sync it?" But it is the same library - just a new system! This makes me nervous because it is the only place I can find my podcasts and playlists. So I how can I...
1. Get my playlists back
2. Get my podcasts back - especially audible subscriptions
3. Update my ipod by getting the ipod or itunes to recognize that it is the same library!
Any advice?
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3) upgrading lost playlists, podcasts, ipod authorization etc..

Hi,
I'm not exactly sure what to do about this, but after having 180 views, I think that you deserve some feedback.
I'm pretty sure that your new system recognizes that your iPod is set up for another system, which in this case, would be your 10.3.9. An iPod cannot be setup for two systems.
Also, did you log into your iTunes Music Store account? If so, you should be able to resuscribe to your podcasts without having to purchase them again.
As for your playlists, theres about a 99% chance that you can't retrieve them, because your hard drive #3 just recognizes it as audio files, and not a music library as you view it in iTunes with playlists. The only chance you have to get them back is to rebuild them.
I would suggest that you wipe your iPod and restore the music from your new library. If not all of your songs and podcasts and whatnot are on your hard drive #3, then there might be a way to get most of them off your iPod first. It's to much to explain right now, but ask if that seems to be the situation.
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