Maybe I am misunderstanding the original post, but...
If I am reading the original post correctly, it sounds like powersme69 moved songs out of the PC folder configured as the source for the iTunes library. If someone were to perform a sync operation after doing this, the songs would be deleted from the iPod. Reading the original post, it sounds like that is what happened. I don't think powersme69 would be concerned about getting copies of the mp3 files from a second iPod if they were still present on the first iPod.
The songs according to the original post were apparently not actually lost or deleted from the hard disk, but were moved to another hard disk directory.
If that is the case, it would just take a few keystrokes to add them back into the iTunes library and then sync the iPod once more.
Again...maybe I misunderstood the original post.