Transferring iPod music from my iPod to my new computer

Help! I received my iPod video for Christmas and downloaded music and videos to it at my parents house in Kentucky (I have about 500 songs). I just downloaded iTunes on my laptop at my home in Houston and I bought new music from iTunes and went to sync it and it said if I did that then I would lose everything that is already on my iPod!!! That makes no sense! Please help me transfer the music on my iPod to my iTunes on my computer!
Thank you!!
HP   Windows XP  

I just checked. Apparently, it's just a thing for
updating iPod, so I guess I can keep that.
So, what happened is... my computer with my iTunes
library is just completely crashed, so we had to wipe
the whole thing clean and start all over again, like
it was a new computer. I don't know if that erased my
songs off the computer or not, but I'm thinking it
did. I wanted to put my stuff onto my newer computer,
anyway.
So only the first option of the above will work for
me. But some people said that I can just plug my iPod
into the new computer, even if iTunes is installed,
and just drag and drop the stuff in my iPod right
into my library.
But I don't think this is true... the last time I
tried copying from a library that wasn't my own, only
the songs from the new library showed up, so I had to
go back to my computer and put all my songs back on
my iPod. This means that if I try plugging my iPod
into the new computer, all my stuff will be erased
and I will have absolutely no way to get it back.
What should I do?
Toshiba Windows XP
my only advice is uninstall iTunes and drag and drop from you ipod useing the first option i gave. as far as plugging into your computer with iTunes, w/o the songs in iTunes im pretty sure it will erase all the songs on your ipod, the same thing happened to me when i tried to do that, lucky for me i had a back up of all my songs on an older computer. so from personal exp, uninstall iTunes and use option 1 that i gave above.
best of luck, and let me know if i can help with any other questions you might have.

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