Sync iPod touch 4G with a new computer?

My hard drive died, and I want to re-sync all of my music (most is not iTunes, and therefore cannot be redownloaded), apps, photos (my Pictures folder was lost), and any other iTunes media. It's authorized in itunes, but it says it'll remove all the music and replace it with only the iTunes music. I also need my apps to be synced. Please help.

After transferring your purchases, back up manually.
Right click on your ipod in the device list and choose backup. A backup without the sync process will be made, see what's saved here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
After that is completed, make sure that you have at least one contact and event set up on your computer, to be able to merge contacts and calendars during the sync process.
Your device will be erased during the first sync, but you can use the manual backup to restore all your data and settings.
Music is one way only, from the computer to your device, unless you bought the songs in itunes and transferred your purchases.
There is 3rd party software out there, but not supported by Apple, see this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2013615&tstart=0

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"backups. But that's not my point. I find it disappointing that I cannot sync my data both ways."
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The 5 authorized COMPUTERS has NOTHING to do with ipods.
Itunes will allow up to 5 computers to be authorized to play pre-itunes+ music. When you reach the limit of 5 COMPUTERS, then you can de-authorize them all, then authorize the active ones again.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420

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Hoping that someone could help me. My computer recently caught a virus and I was not able to back up my hard drive. I lost ALL of my information including all of my songs on my library. Now that I have a new computer, I want to put all of the songs on my iPod into the new library but I get a message that reads something like this "your ipod belongs to a different library, would you like to erase your ipod to match this library" I of course said no because then I would end up with zero songs. Has anyone else had this issue before?
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There's also another method. I've successfully tested this across several different Windows PCs.
Open iTunes and select edit/preferences/advanced/general. Put a check mark in the box marked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" and also "keep iTunes music folder organized", then click 'ok'.
Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
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