Switched computers, iTunes not recognizing songs for sync. HELP!

So my mother has been consolidating content from her older laptop on to her newer desktop. Today she decided to do iTunes while I was at work. From what she told me, she uninstalled iTunes off of her laptop (which was where she was buying/syncing/etc.) and then installed iTunes in to the desktop and plugged it in. She's got a decent sized library (200-300) songs, but now every time it syncs, it only syncs 3 songs, which she said were either bought or listened to today. When you click on "iPod" in iTunes when it's plugged in, and go to "Music", the checkbox next to "Sync all Music" is checked, but in parenthesis it says "3 songs". If you go to her library, all of her 200+ songs are there and can be listened to, but the syncing process won't recognize them.
Didn't know if anyone here has had this issue and could be of help. I usually just google search this crap, but didn't know how to consolidate everything from the first paragraph in to a short google search. So if anyone can lend any help, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Resolved. She uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes this morning before I woke up and apparently she was then able to get all of her music. I'm guessing there was a question she answered wrongly when first plugging the iPod in to the new desktop that screwed it up, but uninstalling and reinstalling the program "reset" it.

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