HT1373 PC to MAC ipod transfer, please help!

I recently downloaded music from iTunes onto my iPod from a PC. I want to keep my music but when I plug it into iTunes on my MacBook, it won't let me. Is there anyway to transfer the music from my ipod to my mac?

Copy the music from the pc to the mac.

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Also the problem involves my Safari erasing bookmarks on its own as described above. Please help anyway you can!
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Thanks for the help. I will take your advice and try running Disk Utility again. I have noticed sometimes when running Safari after quitting the application my defaults get changed -- that is my preferences go away. I have popup blocking and tabbed browing normally enabled by default it used to be if I enabled them as long as I didn't manually disable them that they would stay the same even after I quit and relaunch the browser, but now they get disabled when I quit and have to manually re-enable them again.
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However, the same issue with Safari and iTunes has still been lingering for a while. I already have Mac OS 10.3.9 Combined Update installed should I try re-installing again? That would require me to reinstall OS X again and then update to 10.3.9. Or simply re-download and re-install 10.3.9 if possible over existing configuration so installing 10.3.9 over 10.3.9?
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I think that you may have found yourself in a little bit of a pickle regarding technical hardware terms, so I'll try and clear things up for you.
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