Help my itunes is in a mess

I had the hard disk in my lap top replaced from 40gb to 160gb. Unfortunately I have been in hospital and my itunes was not backed up properly before this was done. Music was in several places due to the small disc size. I now need to remove all the music from my itunes and replace it with what is on my ipod - which has all my music on. I also have an iphone which I dare not sync again until all my music is correct. Please help.

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