Can I Windows format my iPod using a Mac?

...Might sound like a stupid question. I have an iPod with 5600 songs and a dead iMac with all my iTunes library on it. I need the iPod to be Windows formatted to work with the Blue&Me software in my car, but I want to buy a Macbook as my new computer.
Is this doable?
Thanks!

If part of your question involves getting music off of your iPod onto a laptop or PC the article below was very helpful to me. It's a few years old, but I believe the basics are still the same.
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/P0/
I'm not 100% sure, but I think if an Ipod is formatted for windows it will still synch to itunes on a Mac. It won't work the other way around....Windows PC will not read a Mac formatted iPod.
Hopefully someone will correct me if I am wrong.
M.

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