Song Library Management Question

I have a music library several times larger than my 32gb ipod. My computer recently had a hard drive failure. I reinstalled itunes with everything else. My ipod of course still works. I have about 2750 songs on it. The problem is everything in my library is now checked.
I would like to take my ipod library list and check only those songs on my itunes library and have my ratings and play count overwrite what is in my library. If I sync will it assume my library is the master list and try to stick everything on my ipod overwriting my ratings and play count? It's bad enough I lost my library rankings in the reinstall, but I would hate now to lose the 3-5 star ratings on the several hundreds songs I have marked that I like that are on my ipod.
How do I handle this in itunes?

I'm not sure I have enough information to answer this. You mentioned all of your songs being checked, and it doesn't sound like you actually lost any music. If all of your music was stored on the drive that crashed, and you have simply restored it from data cds for example, then there is nothing left of your original library and you have no choice but to rebuild. This happened to me in 2006, and it's very frustrating, but as a previous poster mentioned, it actually can be fun. once you get past the initial shock of losing everything, You just have to adapt the idea of a fresh clean start and "this one will be better than the last anyway."
On the other hand if your computer has two hard drives, or if you kept your music folder on an external hard drive, other than the drive that crashed. You may have your previous library still available and not even know it. For example, your C Drive crashes, you restore evrything, then you open a music folder on an external hard drive and drag your music back into your new library. You have all of your music, but it's a mess, all of your ratings and playcounts are gone, and yes everything is checked.
If that's the situation, you can fix it in about 30 seconds.
Here's the problem. I have windows XP, I know nothing about Vista and I can't really give you step by step instructions. The instructions I'm giving you are for XP and it may or may not work the same on vista. You can try it, and if it doesn't work, open iTunes. Click help. Look for answers on the subject "creating more than one library", "using multiple iTunes Libraries" or something to that effect. They should be able to give you the answer for vista. I went to my help to see if I could find it for you, they only give me one answer and make no mention of other computers. I suspect each computer has help for that compueter.
Anyway, here's the XP solution.
Hold the shift key down, and open iTunes. Do not let up on the shift key until you get a window that asks you to choose a library, or create a new library. If iTunes opens without giving you that choice, just close it and re-open it with the shift key down. Nine times out of Ten it works on the first try. Click "choose a library". You will get another window that allows you to navigate to your hard drive and show iTunes where your music is stored. In a folder called iTunes or iTunes Music, choose "iTunes Library.itl" This should bring back your entire library exactly the way it was when you last used it.
I think I remember raeding somewhere that Vista stores the library in a different place, I don't remember where, I had no reason to pay attention at the time. But hopefully you know where it is. Hope this helps a little

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