IPod connecting to different computers

I work at a dance studio and to cut and make a CD of a song can I hook up another teachers iPod to my laptop and take that song and edit it and still have that persons iPod work at their house?
Thank You for taking the time and helping me.

Would you like to buy a punctuation mark perhaps?
Anyway... yes it can be done, but the answer is not simple. Generally you want their iPod to be in manual mode to put stuff on it without losing what is already on it...
How to use multiple iPods with one computer
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61675
Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61148
Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone (alt link)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535?viewlocale=en_US
Patrick

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