Library on External HD and HD crash

My Tune Library is on an external HD (Ion 160GB)
My library is all consolidated under My Music (under this external HD)
I do a complete backup (copying all files) to a secondary external HD (500GB) once every 2 months.
My first external HD just crashed.
The last copy of all my music I have is 2 months old. Since then, I purchased a few songs on Tune Store. I also created and modified a few playlists did some cleanup (deleted some music, added CD cover images, etc...)
My Ipod is up to date (i did a synchronization before my external HD died)
How can I restore everything, not loosing my 2 months work?

I think Apple originally had to agree to do it that way with the records labels, so people wouldn't be hooking their ipods up to each other's PCs and sharing .... apparently little or no thought was given to legal users who buy music and run into PC problems.
Anyway, I agree - if you've a lot of time invested, the $19 is totally worth it.
I have been luck so far by making regular backups of my ITL file. All my music won't fit on my ipod anyway....

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