Connecting both a PC and Mac to one iPod???

We have a fifth gen ipod. It's been formatted to a PC for my husband's iTunes. I added photos last night from my 12 inch Powerbook. The transfer went fine - it asked if I wanted to sync the iPod up with Powerbook and I said, no. I selected the iPhoto folders for upload and it compeleted the process. The problem: we couldn't turn the iPod off. It wasn't frozen, just wouldn't turn off.
Can we switch between computers and operating systems using the same iPod? Or is the reason it wouldn't turn off? And do we need to reset the iPod?
12 inch powerbook   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   also have a PC

Using an iPOd on two different computers is no problem.
do we need to reset the iPod?
This is simple and is the first thing to do if you have any problems at all.
Press and hold the Select (center) button and Menu (top) button.

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