Installing Hard Drive on my iBook G4 and want to download my Ipod music

My iBook G4 crashed yesterday and I am ordering a new hard drive and after I install it I want to download all of the music from my iPod Nano (latest version - 4th gen I believe) back onto my computer becuase that is my only backup. Does anyone know what the process to do that?
I am worried I can't just install it becuase it thinks I am trying to install all of the music on someone else's computer once I get my running again

Komenke:
If you need assistance with swapping out the HDD, formatting etc. we can help you, but for your question about transferring music from the iPod Nano I suggest that you post that question in the Using your iPod nano (4th generation) forum where there are more likely to be folk who are familiar with your issue.
cornelius

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https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile
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To be honest your post is rambling and difficult to read due to the lack of proper punctuation I only read it part way however...
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1408
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5872
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Is it possible to partition the internal hard drive of my MacBook Pro and install an older Mac OS (10.6.8) on the second partition with OS 10.9.2 on the other? I'd like to be able to boot to the older OS when I need Appleworks and few other applications that aren't available on OS 10.9.2.
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