Lost library and only a portion was salvaged - how I get the rest?

I was running Google Earth and iTunes at the same time today and our computer crashed. As a result, we lost our library (we do have it backed onto our iPhone except the album I purchased just before it crashed). I followed the instructions under apple.com/support (users/music/itunes...moving iTunes Music Library.xml on the the desktop, etc. etc.). It only recovered a small portion of our albums. When I go to users/music/itunes, there is a folder that has all our music in it. I tried to bring it in to iTunes and every time I've tried to do that, iTunes crashes. I'm a bit nervous to get the music from our ipod. I disabled the automatic sync on iTunes but when I go to do it manually, it says this phone is recognized by another iTunes application. I hope this all makes sense! Help!

I told you how to get the music from your ipod.
Relax, I am trying to help. You can check the inferiority complex. You would be shocked at the number who never backup anything and then are shocked that there is no way to get the music back.
Not that I feel like helping you further, but try this article ( and try being more polite to those you ask for help):
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
"I know it's not a backup"
"we do have it backed onto our iPhone"

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