Saving songs that were uploaded by another person to my library

I did not have iTunes on my old computer, so a friend of mine downloaded some songs onto my iPod for me until I could get a computer that would support iTunes.
When I hook up my iPod to my computer, I can see the songs she uploaded under "My iPod" but I don't see them in my library. Is there any way of transferring these songs into my library, as well as saving them onto my computer? I don't want to lose these songs, and I need to save them onto my computer! Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Connect the ipod to the PC, when iTunes opens and you get a promt basicly saying "This ipod is linked to a different library, you want to delete it and resync: HIT NO Rightclick the ipod in iTUnes, hit options, then check "ENable Disk usage" and hit OK
Now you can use third party software like yamipod http://www.yamipod.com to copy songs off the ipod and on to your PC.
Once you do that you can go back and uncheck "Enable disk usage" so iTUnes will auto eject the ipod and you won't have to manually do it

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Hello, ted_marx38.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
The most common cause for this issue would be media present that is purchased with another Apple ID. When prompted to authorize the computer it may show a different Apple ID. If this is the case, the computer will need to be authorized for this Apple ID. The article below will walk you through the process of verifying if that is the case or correcting the issue if not.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1389
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ryane84:
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