Syncing songs with Ipod

Ok, I lost all my songs in a system recovery but I got most of them back onto Itunes with CopyPod. The Ipod is set to manually sync songs. My question is, how do I sync the one song I bought onto the Ipod without erasing or effecting the other songs already there?
Thanks in advance.

I've never tried but click on manuly sync under the settings page in iTunes, then drag the song to the iPod in the soruce list.

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