Cross-country, cross platform iPod update?

Question

Last week we bought our granddaughter a new Nano on the West Coast. We downloaded a dozen tracks from iTunes to one of our Macs, and put them on her Nano along with an audio book she was listening to and reading (which we imported from CD).
She has flown home to the East Coast. There, she will use iTunes on a PC. The challenge now is to remove the audio book but preserve the music when she updates her iPod.
We are thinking the best way is for us to burn those iTunes-purchased tracks to a CD and send it to her to upload onto the PC, and then for her to do a manual update using a folder that includes those tracks but excludes the book. We're thinking this will keep the music in place but remove the book.
Is this right? Is this the easiest way? Is a manual update on a PC essentially the same as on a Mac -- iTunes will open automatically when she connects the iPod, she can set the pref to manual update, and just drag the folder from iTunes onto the iPod icon?

Answer 1

I reformatted the iPod on my girlfriend's computer, then when I received the message to format my iPod (when plugged into my Mac), I got bold and hit "cancel" instead of "Restore."
What do you know? I can now use my iPod on both her computer and mine (for writing and reading). I set up my iPod to manually update so I wouldn't have my library replaced.
Thank you for the help.