How Can I Share iPod Music Over a LAN ?

I want to share music from an iPod over my LAN.
I've searched the forum, and can't find an answer there.
Current Situation
I have all my music on a G5 and share it over an Airport network, so I can play it from any computer in the house.
I'm running out of disk space + I need to have iTunes running all the time in the background to serve the music over the network.
Proposed Solution
I want to use an old iBook as a music server. The iBook doesn't have enough disk space to store all the music, so I want to move all the music from my G5 to an iPod - then connect the iPod to the iBook and serve the music directly from the iPod.
If I store the music on the iPod, I can play it fine on the iBook, using iTunes.
If I enable music sharing on the iBook, the iBook music library can be shared over the network - but this does not include the music in the iPod music library.
How can I share the iPod music directly over the network ?
I can't copy the music from the iPod to the iBook - there's not enough disk space.
I know I can do it by using the iPod in disk mode - and storing the music in an iTunes folder on the iPod. But I also want to use the iPod to play my music in the car - so storing the music in Disk Mode won't help.
I guess I could set up the iBook to refer to an iTunes folder on the iPod using Disk Mode - then sync the iBook with the iPod --- but that just means I'll have 2 copies of the same music on the iPod --- there must be a better way ...
DPG5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

To the best of my knowledge, you can't. iTunes can only share music that's in the main iTunes library, not tracks from an iPod. Your best route will probably be to get an external hard drive for your iBook and put the iTunes library there.

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