Songs no longer on iPod; how to safely sync?

I did an iTunes sync between my iPod Classic 160 Gb and my MacBook Pro as usual. Except that it didn't go as usual. The music is still there on my computer but the iPod has no songs on it. My iTunes is 11.0.4 which it says is the latest version. I'm afraid to reconnect the iPod to the computer for fear it will wipe out the songs in iTunes on the computer, at which time I'd have lost everything. On the Mac I went into iTunes-preferences-devices and to my surprise found "prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically" checked. I can't imagine that it was checked before or how did the iPod always sync automatically? I did not intend to go in an change this setting and don't remember even going to settings. Also, I don't want the songs to go onto the iPhone or they would eat up all the storage capacity. Is there a way to do a one-way sync so that the songs on the computer would be safe?

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