ITouch not syncing songs???

I got my iPod touch last Christmas and i do not/did not plug it into the computer much. One day i decided i should plug it in at least to back it up, and when i plugged it in and it starteed syncing, 2 seconds later it said, "attempt to copy to disk failed. You do not have enough access privilages for this operation." HELP it is not syncing any of my songs and i only have my purchased songs and it took off all of my songs from my library on the computer from my ipod.
basically
-my ipod only kept songs that i purchased on my ipod
-dang error message keeps coming up
-itouch wont sync!!!!!
help me i beg of you!!!!!

oh yeah...... i am a computer idiot so please dumb it down

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