What has itunes done to my song names??

After upgrading to the new 7.0.1, everything was working fine and so I popped in my iPod. After it was done updating, hundreds of my song names had been turned into squares, literally.. I really dont want to go through and figure out what every single one is again.. is there any way to recover that information?
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PC Windows XP Pro

a little update, ive found that on my actual ipod, and also when i paste the squares from itunes into wordpad, they appear as chinese.

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