New laptop, why can't I play the songs from my nano? Help!!!

Please help,I have bought a new laptop (windows XP) I plugged in my nano and my songs appeared in
'my ipod'and my playlists but not in the library.I have authorised the laptop but I still cannot click on my songs and play them (they are not in bold print) I downloaded 1 new song from the shop to authorise my computer and it played that but not the stuff that is on my nano (this includes tunes that I have bought from itunes and imported from cds).I don't know what else I can try, been trying this for 3 hours now, can anyone help me please?

You can't sync or drag your non iTMS music back directly from an iPod to iTunes. The transfer of non iTMS content is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod to discourage it's use as a device for mass file sharing. However there is a manual (free) method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows posted in this thread: MacMuse - iPod to iTunes
Not all the third party programs are commercial offerings and you can read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
If you want to check out the YamiPod utility it is free but you are also free to make a donation to it's developer if you find it useful: YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
The transfer of purchased content to authorised computers has been introduced with iTunes 7, look under under File>"Transfer Purchases from iPod". A paragraph on it has been added to this article: How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer

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