Itunes synced my daugters music to my IPOD

Recently I had to put my daughters and my itunes accounts on the same computer. Her music and mine merged into one library. We cleaned them both up and she has been downloading new songs with no problem. Last night, I signed into my account and pluged my ipod in to charge. When I ejected it, it had all her music. All my songs had been erased from iTunes and replaced with hers?????? I dont understand because we had 2 seperate accounts on the same computer. Can you not do that?? Is there any way to get my songs back or do I simply have to give itunes more $$ to repurchase my tunes?

I'm not sure what happened?!? I had my account on my computer. I plugged my daughters ipod into my computer and when itunes opened i signed out of my account and then signed in under her account. At some point itunes asked about merging her songs with the library and i thought i answered no but the next thing i know they all merged into one library. I did this in February and hadnt used my ipod until last night so the exact order of how that went is a little blurred.
Then last night when I plugged my ipod in for the 1st time since that happened ... I signed in, plugged it in to charge, left the room, and when I came back I noticed that itunes showed all my daughters music. I never deleted any music off of itunes. In fact when all the songs merged on my daughters ipod in feb we deleted them off of her itunes account but i did look at mine and they were there.
Gosh .... who knows that was so long ago that I cant remember. I was pretty sure that I had gotten onto my itunes since then to just look and that my songs were there. Maybe they werent??
but, I dont understand why her account and mine merged anyway?

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