Ipod songs missing, Itunes unresponsive

A few days ago I went to add more songs to my Ipod, and Itunes would continually get an error message when loading and shut down. SO I switched over to 3rd party software, Anapod explorer, and it seemed to work pretty peachy. Anyways, my computer froze (its prone to doing this) and when I turned on my ipod I found a TON of songs were missing, even though Anapod and my computer would read the drive as being almost full (544 megs free). They should still BE there, shouldn't they? It also deleted all my playlists and the smart playlists like most played, etc. Meanwhile, I've uninstalled and reinstalled Itunes and I still get the same error message. Does anybody have any advice on how to recover my songs or get Itunes working properly again?

Well thanks for all the help

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1). Connect your iPod to your new computer. If it is set to update automatically you'll get a message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod.
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