1 Ipod, 2 computers... and a question!

I have been using my Ipod/Itunes on my PC for ages, and I recently bought a laptop.
Now, I dont want to dump my whole library onto the laptop as well, but I was wondering if I can drag songs off my ipod into the new itunes library on my laptop, so that I have a few songs to listen to on the Itunes on my laptop.
Hope someone can help!

Click here, follow the instructions, and then add the songs to the iPod outside of iTunes.
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Whether you can redownload previous purchases depends upon the type of item (audiobooks and ringtones are one-time only downloads), what country that you are in (music, films, TV shows can't be redownloaded in all countries), and whether the item is still in your country's store (content providers occasionally remove their items) - what you can redownload will show under the Purchased link under Quicklinks on the right-hand side of the iTunes store homepage
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I have 3 computers Desktop PC-XP at work, Laptop PC-Vista, and Desktop PC-XP at home. I also have an iPhone, 2 iPod touches (for each of my sons) and an iShuffle. I want to copy/share any music/video/apps with each device wherever i am. I have authorized my 3 computers and am having trouble syncing the iPod touches with my laptop.
Each time i connect my device it wants to erase everything and resync it to the current library on that machine. It greys out the apps on my iTouches and won't let me drag and drop them. I did this exact thing on my computer at work last week without any problems.
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Looking for a way to easily manage everything and can find great help videos and instructions for one computer and one device, or one computer and multiple devices. Multiple computers seems to be the issue.
If someone had some advice on how to handle this the best way i would greatly appreciate it. thanks!

You can sync/manage itunes content from ONE computer at a time. When you sync/manage to a different computer it will erase the current content and replace with content from the new computer.
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