Sync'ed iPod to pick up a new album, and now all others are gone

Background:
I'm a long-time iTunes user and am on my third iPod and third iBook on the same libary, which is over 1500 songs. All either purchased from the iTunes store or uploaded from my CD collection. The libary is stored on an external Firewire hard drive. Sometimes I've lost several albums, and upgrades and re-syncs discovers them again. Today I have a specific example to inquire about here.
I have all of the albums by the same artist--eight or so--and was given her latest, so I uploaded the CD to iTunes. Today I realized I hadn't synced it to my iPod (30gig newest gen) so ran a sync. Now I have the new album, but all of the other albums from this artist are gone.
I would like to restore them, and if possible find out what else has been blown away. I don't sync Podcasts, movies, or videos to my client devices from the library--just songs.
The current "host" Mac for the library is my G4 running 10.5.1, this was iTunes 7.5. I also share to a MacBook, and AppleTV.
I'd like iTunes to just manage my music library, regardless of size. One would expect that original function to work by version 7.

While that may work9I do not think it will) with iTunes purchased music it will not work for other music.
- Transfer iTunes purchases by:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
- For other music you will need a third-party program like one of those discussed here.
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