2 Ipod minis and 1 XP PC is there anything I should know

Hi I already have Ipod mini (working fine at moment) my son has just purchased one and I will be connecting to pc shortly is there anything I should know to make like easier?

I just have joined since my wife and daughter have had two working well with an XP machine--until today. My daugther's is an iPOD mini and my wife's a 20GB iPod. Using method two on the link that was provided for the past three months. But today, it appears as though iTunes will now only recognize my Daughter's Mini and Displays her name--for both the Mini and my Wife's ;-(.
I'm trying to figure out what might have happened. That was with iTunes 4.8--I installed iTunes 5 now and retried it. Same. Then we reset my Wife's iPod and iTunes still detected her as my Daughter? Seems like there is a data file that is locked in iTunes that is causing the naming display to get confused.
The Music is OK on both and still partitioned by playlists and Updated that way.
Any thoughts?

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