Transferring iPod content to iTunes

Hello everyone
My hard drive broke recently causing me to lose EVERYTHING and I have reinstalled iTunes 6 but don't know how to get all of my songs and playlists copied from my iPod into iTunes.
This has happened to me once before and I nearly lost everything that was on my iPod so, as you can imagine, I am really desperate not to **** this up.
Please could someone let me know what to do.
Thanks very much.
Bec x
eMachines 420 Windows XP
eMachines 420 Windows XP

Okay, so what you want to do here, is connect your ipod, make sure you go into folder settings and show the hidden files and folders, and you can drag your ipod music folders (music files will have funky names like j3 etc...) over into either itunes, or your itunes music folders....
if you need further help, post back here
there's other ways, but that's the fastest and easiest

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