ITunes Library Error / Sync with iPod

A few days ago, I opened a new library with iTunes in order to create a smaller library/playlist collection on a jump drive. Upon switching back to my most recent library (or what I thought was most recent), I discovered that a few of my playlists were missing. Upon closer inspection, though, I noticed that this version of the library must be a months-old version. I'm missing several albums and a great deal of my library management (i.e. re-naming albums, organizing collections, etc) has gone undone. This is problematic, because I don't even know what I've added to my library since then. My iPod is updated, and has all of the content and proper organization. However, iTunes does not seem to like me using my iPod as the "base" and syncing my iTunes computer library to match. Is there a way to do this? Since my iPod is far more up-to-date than my iTunes library, I want to use it to sync with. Hopefully this is possible. Help is appreciated.

Addition: All of the music I have added since the version of the library I'm currently using is still in my iTunes music folder. For some reason, the library file itself isn't synced with the contents of my iTunes music folder.

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