MISING SONGS

MY COMPUTER CRASHED AND I LOST EVERYTHING. AFTER REFORMATING MY HARD DRIVE, I DOWNLOADED ITUNES 6, BUT OBVIOUSLY I LOST ALL OF THE SONGS I HAD PURCHASED. HOW DO I GET THOSE SONGS BACK FOR MY LIBRARY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME,
SEMPER FI,
MARTY
DELL 4800   Windows XP   1 GIG RAM/160 GIG MEMORY

Yes, it happens sometimes.
Did you do anything like update iTunes on the computer?
This is the iPod touch forum. It appears yo have an iTunes problem. I would post in the iTunes forum

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