Ipod suddenly holds half the songs it did

Hi!
I have a 4 GB 3rd generation Nano and I've had it since July and it has worked perfectly until now. My hard drive crashed last week, so when I got it up and working again I downloaded the latest verision of iTunes and loaded a bunch of cds onto it. This evening I emptied my iPod to put the new music on there. Where before it held 900+ songs, after putting the new music on there it now only holds 528 songs, which is considerably less than 900.
I got rid of iTunes 9 and downloaded iTunes 7.7.1, cos it works, and downloaded the same songs and it still only holds 528 songs.
Apparently this is not an uncommon problem, and in fact it happened to me when I had my 2 GB 1st generation nano.
So I'm wondering if anyone can help me out and offer some suggestions that might remedy my problem, I'd be grateful and am willing to try anything. Thanks so much
Corey

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