How do I get song on iPod back onto iTunes?

Hi. I recently bought a new laptop (new Toshiba for slightly less new Toshiba); I followed the iTunes help instructions to use the iPod as an external harddrive and copied the music/podcasts from the iTunes on my old computer onto the iPod (classic, 30 gig with video). I know this worked because I could see the files in Windows and I could see the memory was used via the iTunes-iPod manager.
I then moved the music (or so I thought) onto the new iTunes library on the new computer. iTunes listed all the songs and podcasts in the library; I checked a podcast and it played, so I figured it worked. I was giving the old laptop to my stepdaughter, so I deleted iTunes and the library off that computer. I also deleted the extra copy of the software from the external harddrive part of the iPod.
Then, when I went to sync my iPod to the new iTunes library, it wiped all the music off the iPod. Somehow, it didn't delete the podcasts (which I downloaded for free diligently and don't want to have to pay for the old ones) but the iTunes library on my computer is empty.
So now, two questions:
1) How can I transfer the podcasts that were saved on my iPod back into the iTunes library?
2) On the iPod, each podcast is listed up to 3 times, but all 3 listings represent the same copy of the podcast (i.e. only one copy of a given podcast exists on the iPod). How do I make it stop doing this?
Thanks much
1) How

Hey! read this for instructions: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8489490#8489490

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