Cross Platform (win/mac) iPod Communication

Hello. I currently use an iBook G4 to update my ipod. However, sometimes I like to listen to music over my girlfriend's house (she is caring for my cat at the moment). She has a computer with Windows XP. Ideally, I would like to plug my iPod Video into her computer so I can listen to my music while at her place. However, I am unable to do that without formatting my iPod (thus erasing everything on it). I tried setting up my iPod to a FAT32 system (Windows) because I heard that it would still work on my iBook. As soon as I plugged the iPod back to my iBook, however, it asked to be formatted again. Is there any possible way to make my iPod readable by both and writable by my mac? Thank you in advance.

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.

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