ITunes wont work since new computer

I had iTunes on my old computer and I just got a new computer and downloaded iTunes. I logged into iTunes but none of my songs are showing up, and I'm scared that if i plug my iPod into the computer that all of my songs will dissapear. Is there anyone who can tell me how to get my songs back without deleting all of them off of my iPod?

Your iTunes songs will be on the old computers hard drive, so you'll need to transfer them over to the new computer. You can plug your iPod into your new computer, it wont delete the tunes on it, but I dont think you can swap them from your iPod to iTunes very easily.
Look at these two threads which are related to transfering the files from ipod to itunes.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3386821&#3386821
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1510817&#1510817

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