Can I install itunes without formatting ipod?

Alo.
Ok...
so my job keeps me on the road constantly, ie: not at the 'home' computer, where I first added some songs to my 60g ipod.
What my question is, is there any way that I can put the CD in, instal itunes, and continue past the step telling me to format without actually formatting.
I've been looking for an answer for about 2 hours now, and can't see any way to do this, short of going to the home computer, and changing the settings to 'manual' instead of 'automatic'.
I would really like to put more songs onto my ipod, but don't want to lose what I have on there, and don't want to travel far to the 'home' computer in order to change the settings.
Is there a solution? Pleeeaase help me!

Hi Noel-
Although I may not understand exactly what you want to do, it sounds like you want to use your iPod on both computers without losing the music already on your iPod. You need to set the iPod to manual updating, but you can do this on any computer that has iTunes installed.
First, you can download iTunes by itself from this link and install it.
Then, to keep your iPod from automatically syncing with iTunes when you connect it to your computer, hold down the CTRL-SHIFT keys until iTunes fully launches. You'll then be able to go into iPod Options and change the syncing to manual.

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