Ipod from Mac to PC

To make a long story short, I have a mac formatted ipod. I also have a ton of music on my pc and I want to use my ipod as a hard disk to transfer the pc songs to my mac.
Can someone please provide me with detailed steps on how to accomplish this task.
I have searched the forums, but I can not find specifically what I need.
Thanks!

About 18 months ago I managed to get all the songs from my Mac formatted iPod onto my XP work PC without any 3rd party apps. I now have a new job and new work PC (Fister this time) and need to go through the process again. Only I can't remember how I did it.
But I think it involved putting the iPod into disk mode, transferring the songs to the PC and then reformatting the iPod. It involved erasing the iPod but as all the songs were on my Mac it was simply a case of leaving it to have all it's songs re-transferred.
Perhaps I had to intially change the disk format to to a PC compatible format?
So would it work by doing the following?:
1) reformat iPod to be PC compatible (done through iPod updater on PC)
2) sync iPod on Mac (with iPod HD in PC format)
3) put iPod on Disk Mode
4) drag and dropc songs onto PC
5) plug iPod back in to Mac and Restore
It would take a while to do (I have almost 30GB of songs) and wouldn't allow syncing but it would allow me to have a lot of my music with me at work
I also have an external Lacie drive which backs up my iMac. Would I just be able to copy over my music library from Lacie drive to PC, perhaps using Fister's Sync Center?

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