IPod nano transfer songs to an iBook

Hi
I just had a major problem with my trusted iBook, and I had to get my hard drive replaced, it was done by an apple certified shop/technician. The problem is that I lost my original iTunes music/photo library.
The songs and the pictures are still on my iPod nano 8gb. My wife's songs are still on her iPod nano 4gb. Both iPods are less than 6 months old.
Can I transfer my songs and pictures from my iPod back to my iBook?
Are there any possible problems?
I tried with my shuffle and all the songs were deleted from it!
Did I do something wrong?
I don't want to have to spend quite a long time transfering the songs again.
Also, my iBook's CD ROM drive is a bit dodgy now, as sometimes it reads the CD and transfers ok, sometimes it just ejects it!
Look forward to your help
Thanks
James

Hi Mitch
Does it matter which version of iTunes is installed on my iBook and the version of software on my iPod.
On my iBook, there is version 4.7.1 and on my iPods I have Version 1.1.2.
I cannot use version 7.1.1 of iTunes as my iBook does not have 256 MB SDRAM only 192 MB SDRAM.
Look forward to your comments again.
Thanks
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first question is is there a setting i can choose
(either in iTunes or the iPod nano itself) to make
the on-screen iPod nano text appear larger than the
default?
No.
however, most
of my songs require a program called NJStar
Communicator (www.njstar.com) to display the chinese
characters -
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