Can I share my ipod between my work PC and my home Mac?

I have an iPod mini that i routinely sync with my mac at home. I just started a new job and am foced to use a PC in my office (Windows XP Pro). I want to connect the iPod to my PC and play music off of it, sync contacts, etc.
I installed iTunes on the PC and tried to connect my iPod to it but was greeted by a dialog box saying I would have to reformat the iPod to have it work with the windows box.
This completely defeats my goal of sharing the iPod between the PC and my home mac! I do not want to loose any of the info off the ipod which syncs regularly with my home mac.
I've read a few posts here that suggest it is impossible to share the ipod between the windows and mac... this sounds incredible to me though - if true, a tremendous oversight on Apple's part, especially as they try to move to being more and more integrated with the PC world.
Any tricks out there that might help?
Thanks!

I took the plunge and reformatted the iPod mini using the windows ipod software. (This erased everything on the ipod)
I next set up the ipod with itunes for windows on my work pc and made it sync my favorite podcasts. I took the iPod home and plugged it in to my mac - it was recognized perfectly by the mac. Using the mac, I set the ipod up to sync contacts from address book and then loaded up about 3 gigs of music.
Now I take the ipod back and forth each day - it continues to sync podcasts at work via the pc and contacts at home via the mac... I can manage the music on the ipod manunally using either the mac or the pc... at work i can listen to music on the ipod through itunes and some JBL speakers I hooked up to the pc. The only thing I can't do is sync contacts via the ipod between outlook (pc) and address book (mac), but I can live with that.
The moral of the story - if you want to share the ipod between a pc and mac, it's easy to do so - but you must first format the ipod with the windows version of the ipod software. Then it 'plays nice' with both platforms.
Hope this helps anyone else out there with similar problems... elsewhere I've heard complaints about trying to get contacts out of address book and into microsoft outlook - turns out you can select a bunch of contacts in address book, hold down the option key while dragging them into a folder and they each get copied as individual vcards - then you can import them into outlook.

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