Rebuilt Ipod Music Library xml file from Ipod?

[geuis]

All the music in the Library in Itunes on my winXP machine is gone. When I look in the folder where its stored, all the music is there.
I'm not sure what happened, but it appears my iTunes Music Library.xml file is corrupted.

The problem is that I have a lot of songs from cd's that were burned by different DJs I've met through the years, and a lot of the cd's did not have the title, artist, or track names embedded. I had to spend many hours manually entering this information into Itunes.

My Ipod Mini still has all of this information. When I connected it to the computer and opened Itunes, while my Library is blank the Ipod still shows all of the songs correctly categorized with the correct information.

How can I re-import or rebuild the appropriate files in order to get this information from my Ipod back into the Library on Itunes?

Thanks.

[geuis]

Does anyone have an idea how I can do this?

[kennyquiet]

i figured it out.
you have to uninstall the ipod installer program.
then, you have to install the ipod installer program again.
when it asks you to plug in the ipod, you plug it in.
it will then tell you that the ipod needs to be formatted.
you click the format button and then it will format the ipod for you.
i was using a usb wire to connect.
i also don't recommend using usb.
i bought a firewire card for $25.
i now have no problems with it.

[geuis]

If it formats the ipod, that will erase what I have on it now. How does that help me restore my library listings from the ipod?