Itunes / Ipod syncing.... HELP!

Hello,
I had my old Itunes Library on my Powerspec using W-XP PRO, then one day my PC started to cat funny... I think it was hacked, so then I decided to back up some of my items to an external HD! (I put my 5 Gigs of Music on my external HD) then my PC crashed, HD failed... It was not a good site!
Now I am using my older Dell 4300, using Windows 2000... I need to know how to get my Itunes Library back onto THIS PC! (Dell)
Should I just insert the HD onto this computer and copy all my music over to Itunes?
and then will my Ipod sync with this PC even though its a different PC? Do I have to authorize it?
Thanks in advance!
Eliott

It's certainly not true that only the newer iPods support mp3s. There seems to have been a number of problems with 7.2 and the release of the non-drm tracks from iTunes. It most often crops up with tracks that started out in life as drm tracks purchased through the iTunes store that were subseqently converted to non-drm tracks. Depending on how they were added to the library, it appears that iTunes thinks they are still the drm tracks but corrupted. Deggie's suggestion has worked for most folks, as best I can tell.
Best of luck.

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sorry if this is in the wrong section, but i really
need your help.
I got a 2nd generation i pod i believe and i have
1040 songs on it, the thing is my computer broke so i
lost all my songs. now i got a new comp, and i got 40
new songs id wish to put onto my current ipod, but it
says i either have to add the 40 new songs in and
delete all my old ones, or have my 1040 songs but not
add my new ones.
it says my ipod is already synced to another library.
what do i do? PLEASE HELP THANKS.
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