Itunes not opening at all help

Recently I upgraded to a full edition of windows 7. My friend suggested that I do a fresh install so I partitioned part of my hard drive off to a separate drive so that I could install my new OS. My Itunes as well as all of my music is sitting over on the other drive. When I tried to pull Itunes over onto my new drive It gives me an error stating that Apple application support was not found and suggests that I reinstall itunes to get it to work properly. The only problem is I do not want to lose my entire song list. I have many songs that I have gotten (all legally) through places like amazon.com and I am afaid that i will lose all of my songs if I reinstall Itunes.
I have them all on my Ipod but I do not know a way for you to take your itunes songs from your Ipod to your computer. I understand that this is to prevent piracy and can even respect that but consider I obtained all of this music through legal means it really makes it a pain for me. On top of that there are a coupld songs that were given to me by a friend of mine who is in a band that can simply not be replaced if I have to start all over again.
Someone please help me. Thanks!

You can try a 3rd-party ipod manager. Make sure to get one that supports your model ipod. Here is a page to start your research:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/P2/

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Just A Correction. In The Line ....The first time it will prompt you about itunes.exe running as a program (Click Yes) and the second is very important since this is what enables iTunes to make a forced connection with iTunes servers (Click yes again)...
Instead of "Click Yes" its supposed to be "Click Allow".

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Pleinvrees
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