Tranferring ipod music & playlists to itunes using windows

My external hard drive crashed with my 12,000 songs on it. The small bright spot of this is all of my music is still on my ipod. I’m very nervous trying "podutil" since this is the only item that has my library on it. Has anyone had success using this? Or any other way to get the library back into itunes? I’m using itunes 7.0 and there seems to be differences in finding “enable disk use”. Any preferences/advice on these programs? Thanks

Try using "ipod2pc" a utility that rips from the ipod and allows you to put the files on any pc.

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