Lost music on ipod after reinstall of itunes

I've been upgrading to Win XP from Win ME. Had to start all over back to factory restore. Lost i tunes library, but that was ok because it was on ipod. Re-installed itunes and downloaded upgrade for itunes and ipod. Downloaded/installed fine. Hooked up ipod. Message said ipod was linked to different library, do you want to link to this libray and load play list (or something close to that). Clicked yes...should have clicked no. ipod shows no music in its folders. However, itunes shows over 5 Gig used on the ipod, which was the size of the music folder. How can I undo this and get access to the original misic folder?

hi Terri!
this resource may be helpful:
Buegie, "Losing ALL of my music.." #1, 09:18pm Oct 11, 2005 CDT
love, b

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