Updated iTouch to 2.2 application and it ERASED all of my music and movies

I have an iPod iTouch 32GB that I bought over a year ago. Today, I updated my iTouch with the application update 2.2 from my Mac and it erased all my music from my iTouch. When I tried to manually drag my music from my Mac over to my iTouch, it did not work. It took me over a year to purchase music, download and get my iTouch organized and now because of the recent update of the 2.2 application, it wiped everything off my iTouch and I cannot find the fix. I still have my music and movies on my Mac but it will not let me copy it to my iTouch. I read the help menu and some of the discussion and nothing remotely helpful is available to help me drag my music and movies from my computer to my iTouch. Am I supposed to re-purchase the music and movies again? What's the fix to put back all of my music from my Mac to my iTouch when dragging or synching does not work. Did my music/movies expire? I tried contacting Apple and guess what, they are not available to answer support questions from us.

Did you try going to back version 2.1? I assume thats what you had before going to 2.2?
Do to so, in your iTunes, click on your iTouch. Shift click the "restore" button and you should see a few .IPSW files. Find the one that says 2.1 and let iTunes recover your iTouch.
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