Ipod as a gift... Can I preload the music?

I want to buy my grandmother an IPOD as a gift. As you can imagine, technology is not really her thing. Eventually, she will learn to load new music, but I would like to preload music on it and give it as a present.
If I load music on it, will there be an issue 'pairing' it to her computer?
Thanks
CT

Hi Mr Happy,
I just bought an iPod shuffle myself and found the following article quite useful.
This is one of the points in the article;
"Unlike other iPods, you can't move your shuffle from one computer to another and add tracks from each. If you plug your shuffle into another computer, iTunes notes that it's an alien iPod and asks if you want to start using it with this machine instead. If you say yes, the songs on the iPod are erased and you have to start building a playlist from scratch (or from Autofill). If you say no, iTunes refuses to have anything to do with the iPod."
Now this article was written when iTunes 4 was the newest iTunes so I don't know if they changed this so that now you can plug it into any computer now and get tunes from any computer with iTunes installed.
here is the whole article.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/02/15/shuffle.html
Hope that helps,
Tom
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