Lost all my music 2800 songs and computer wont recognize my ipad iv been trying for hours... oh well

grrrr just lost all my music 2800 songs itunes said i had 2 librarys and i needed to delete 1 in order to put new songs on and it deleted everything except 18 new ones i bought >>>>crying ..my computer wont recognie my ipod to even try some software to get ir back.. wheres the restor button on the ipod??? why wont my computer recognize my ipod i c it as a camera but says i pod??? HeLP anyone??pLzz

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I finally got it working. I was trying to set it up ethernet. My biggest mistake was when the new Express came on, I did not select 'Continue' - I went straight to manual thinking that I would get the most setup options in manual mode. So everything I initially tried always resulted in 'wireless'. Even when I would update or restore default settings, the Express would not completely restart. Or sometimes I would get an error. So most of the time I had to unplug it. So when it came back up, none of my changes were retained. But there were a lot of times when everything was green and appeared to be fine. But anytime the ethernet cable was plugged in, no more internet.
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