SYNCING OLD LIBRARY TO NEW ITUNES

recently had our computer guy clean up our laptop and im getting a popup that reads "you're ipod is synced with another itunes library. do you want to erase this ipos and sync with this itunes library. An ipos can only be synced with one itunes library at a time. erasing and syncing relpaces the contents of this ipos with the contents of this itunes library" My options are to erase and sync or cancel. Does that mean I am going to lose the songs i already have in there because the new itunes is empty? help!

You want to get everything off the iPod and back into your new iTunes library.
Copying from iPod to Computer threads...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5044027&#5044027
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=893334&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432&#797432
Also these useful internet articles...
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/
http://playlistmag.com/secrets/2006/12/twowaystreet20/index.php
http://playlistmag.com/help/2005/01/2waystreet/
Patrick

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    http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3536077#3536077
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432&#797432
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    http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3536077#3536077
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432&#797432
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