Adding account to computer with existing account

Hi, my computer recently crashed but, luckily, I have all of my songs purchased from Itunes on my Ipod. The other computer in our house contains my brother's Itunes account. I have been reading the information on how to authorize another account and how to manually manage an Ipod, and I have authorized my account for his computer. However, I have not seen the issue I'm most worried about addressed which is my brother's Itunes library. I am afraid that if I plug my Ipod in and begin to transfer the songs on my Ipod to my newly authorized Itunes account on my brother's computer that it will erase all of his Itunes library. Can this happen if I am signed in to my account? The only account that has ever been on this computer is his and I don't want to interfere. Sorry if this has already been addressed but I had not seen it anywhere. Thanks in advance for any help.

Welcome to AD!
My advice is to make a new Windows user account for your name, and then start iTunes after you log in there.
Use the transfer purchases feature to get your songs off your iPod, and it will not touch your brother's account, iTunes library, or music files, at all.
Here are some Apple articles on that:
Multiple iPods on one PC (use method 1): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495
Transfer purchases: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/8.2/en/15488.html

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