What do you do when your computer dies?

My iPod mini music library was linked to a laptop that is now deceased. Now I appear stuck in the position of not being able to add songs to my iPod.
How can I synchronize the iTunes library on my new laptop with the library on my old iPod?
Put another way, how can I backup the libary on my old iPod to my new laptop?
  Windows XP  
  Windows XP  

Well same thing happened to me, I had to download an item called Ipod Agent. From there I had to figure out how to tranfer my old music on my ipod onto my itunes on my new computer. It all worked out fine afterwards, find Ipod Agent download it and go from there. Sorry I can't give you the link.

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