Missing old music and audiobooks, help?!?!

After I downloaded my three new audiobooks onto my ipod nano, all of my old books and music disappeared.  How do I get everything back?

...and does iTunes have to be running on the host Mac for other computers to see the shared library?

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    ...and does iTunes have to be running on the host Mac for other computers to see the shared library?

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