I deselected ALL my songs with a command-click...

While working on my iTunes song list, I was command-clicking to select multiple songs and inadvertently command-clicked on the checkmark box that selects the song for downloading to my iPod (or not).
Shazam, in less than a second I had de-selected my entire song list from the download list.
I've got 7,000+ songs and I only want about 4,000 of them downloaded to my iPod so the checkboxes are an important part of my song management.
Is there an undo for this? Is there a way to get an "are you sure" confirmation?
I tried making a copy of my old iTunes playlist, but it had been updated within seconds of making the change.
It seems pretty easy to initiate a command with such serious effects.
4 G4's, 3 towers, 1 PowerBook other antique Mac's Mac OS X (10.4.10)

This won't help fix the mess, but in future I might recommend using a playlist for the songs you want to transfer to your iPod. It's harder to accidentally delete a playlist, and you can tell your iPod only to sync certain playlists. That way you can leave all of your songs checked, and iTunes won't skip over them when playing at home.

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