How do I recover uploaded songs from CD's after upgrading Itunes and Ios from external drive with older Itunes version?

I upgraded to the newest version of Itunes on a new PC and the latest version of the IOS operating system for my Iphone 3GS and lost all of my songs that were uploaded from CD's.
Prior to the upgrade I tried to synch and got a message that I need to save all purchases of songs and apps otherwise I would lose them. I did and they saved. However all of the music that I uploaded off of CD's were not transferred. No matter what I did to get that music transferred from Iphone to Itunes prior to the upgrade it would not upload so I did the upgrade. All of my apps and purchased Itunes successfully went back onto my Iphone but all of my music that I loaded into Itunes are gone from Iphone and Itunes.
I had saved all of my songs on an external drive in an older version of Itunes. I would like to plug that in tonight and see if I can get those songs loaded onto my iphone but now am worried that it will try and synch what is on the Iphone into that version and erase all of my songs. Also I am afraid that any newly purchased songs directly onto the Iphone will be lost if I get all of the old data back.
What do I need to do?

The music sync is one way - computer to iphone. the ONLY exception is itunes purchases.
The songs from cd came from your computer in the first place, so they should still be there and should be included in your regular backup copy of your computer.

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