Itunes erases my Ipod Nano songs

Over the weekend my sister wanted to add this one song to my Ipod and she updated my Ipod Nano and now all my songs are erased. However, I backed up my files and now i have almost all my songs. I notice that everytime I hook up my ipod, I cant edit the songs inside my ipod, its all grey and unclickable. Also any song I have in the library replaces the songs I have in my Ipod. It erases all the songs on my Ipod. Can anyone help me fix this?? It says Updating Ipod and its automatically adding songs from the library and deletes whatever is in my Ipod.

I accidentally pushed restore thinking that it would "restore" or add my newly purchased songs onto my i-pod. Is there anyway to undo the restore to get my 140 lost songs back? I know that they might be on the hard drive of my original computer that I used to download the majority of the songs, but it was hit by lightning. The hard drive was saved but it is not currently installed in any computer. I am going to look on the back-up that the computer store gave us of data from the hard drive but I am looking for other solutions besides purchasing the music again. Any thoughts or helpful suggestions.?

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