My old PC died. Cant get music to new iMac w/o old PC???

Ive read as much as possible on the thousands of threads on here, but the only solution not involving my old PC is a program called senuti that doesnt recognize my 5th gen 30g iPod. I have 3000 family photos and 2500 songs in limbo on my PC formatted iPod, and my old PC will not start-up. PLEASE HELP!

If you have any iTMS purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers has been introduced with iTunes 7 A paragraph on it has been added to this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod
The transfer of non iTMS content such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there's a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to your Mac. The procedure is a bit involved but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
If you prefer something more automated there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve music files and playlists from your iPod, this is just a selection. I use Senuti but if it's not working for you have a look at the web pages and documentation for the others, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
iPodRip Mac Only
PodWorks Mac Only
PodView Mac Only
iPodAccess Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac & Windows
PodUtil Mac & Windows
To retrieve photos from an iPod try:
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
iPod Photo Liberator Mac & Windows
Use Disk Mode to copy photos from iPod

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