Syncing Ipod touch deletes songs

I bought songs using Itunes on my Ipod touch. When I connected my touch to my computer and it synced it then deleted the songs off my itouch and it never put them on my computer. What do i do?

This happened to me once. I contacted the iTunes store customer service and they allowed me a free download of the lost songs.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/browser/

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