Windows 7 and iPod Touch 32GB

Hi,
I was hoping someone here could answer this for me and maybe others.
I will be upgrading to Windows 7 Ultimate soon on my main desktop PC and this will be a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate.
What I'm concerned about and would like advice about is what would be the best way of backing up my itunes library? because obviously when doing the fresh install of Windows 7 I will then have to install all programs like itunes etc and I have had this in the past where once I have installed itunes on a pc and try to sync my music that is on my ipod with a clean installed itunes, itunes simply wipes everything off my ipod Touch and I have to load ALL my music into the itunes library to then sync with my ipod Touch again.
I don't really want to be doing this again so I have come here for advice on how best to do this?

Hmmmm. Actually the iTunes library and content files are stored in a *slightly different* location in Vista than they are in Windows 7. Where "username" is the name of your User account on the PC, the Vista and 7 default locations for media is shown in the following document:
[Where iTunes for Windows stores your iTunes library|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2279]
The library files are in:
Windows Vista - C:\Users\username\Music\iTunes\
Windows 7 - C:\Users\username\My Music\iTunes\
So there isn't exactly a "same place" on 7, unless you create a "Music" folder in the same place as on the Vista PC.
So in your circumstances, I might be tempted to try a CD/DVD backup and restore from backup. (A good idea to *test restoring from your backup* prior to the Windows 7 install just to make sure it works properly.)
See:
[How to back up your media in iTunes|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1382]
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