My songs aren't on my ipod but are on my computer

My ipod has suddenly cleared itself of all my songs they are still on my computer but not on my ipod! something came up saying about another library in use and do i want to change the link to this ituner library and replace al existing songs on this ipod with those from this library and i accidently pressed no! how do i now get them back?
ipod mini   Windows XP  
  Windows XP  

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Change to Automatically update all.

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