I think everybody's pretty much covered the important stuff for you already, but I could a couple of minor points (well, not minor if you run up against them the hard way!).
The first is just that you can avoid a lot of risk of confusion with this stuff if you just go into your iPod's setting and select manual control rather than automatic synching. I much prefer this: you know what goes onto your iPod because you specifically went and told it to go there, and nothing ever gets knocked off just because you connected it and forgot about the auto-synch or connected it to someone else's computer (which of course you can in fact do) or that sort of thing. It's like taking off the cruise to give yourself more direct control, and has no negative effect on your system. Just my $.02 worth on that one.
The other relates to this:
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Originally Posted by jtm1631
You can force windows to see the iPod as an external hard drive. Once it sees it as a hard drive you can copy all of the files onto your compter and than import them into iTunes. A couple of extra steps, but sometimes it is nice to be able to do.
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However note that PCs will frustratingly not let you do this if you didn't originally format the iPod on a PC. It's one of those examples where PCs don't know what to do with a drive formatted on something else. There is no reverse problem, however: if you format your iPod on PC using Windows and connect it to a Mac, the Mac will recognize it and let you use it, no prob.
So all in all you may experience more iPod joy if you format it using Windows.
Steve