ITunes 8 on Vista 32; iTunes won't sync iPOD with my Existing Library

After upgrading to iTunes 8, when I try to sync my iPOD, I get a message that the iPOD is sychronized with another library and I get a pop-up box asking if i want to copy purchased music to the new library. I DON'T want to do that. I want my iPOD synchronized with my old music library.
How can I do this? I don't want to lose access to any of the music in my library. It's a mixture of purchased and CD source music.

Hey I get the same error, its an absolute nightmare, everytime i try to sync a new song or cd i have to reload my entire itunes library on my ipod, are there any patches out there that fix the problem?

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