My hard drive failed...Can you restore files from i-pod

My hard drive failed. Most stuff was backed up, but not one large folder of MP3 files. All of the songs in question are on my i-pod, but I cannot for the life of me find a way to get the i-pod to transfer the files on to the new hard drive.
Does anyone know of a way to do this?
The music was purchased from a site other than the i-store BTW, and re-downloading it all in very manual if I get stuck having to do that. It seems like it should be possible to just send it all back over from the i-pod. I'm baffled.
Thanks!

The post linked below has loads of options for you:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8209923#8209923

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