Ipod Mini Help - Need Idiot's Guide to Set Up

Help! I got an ipod mini for Xmas from my boyfriend. He loaded 500 songs onto my ipod from his ibook. However as we've split up I haven't really used it but I'm going travelling for a year (this weekend-nothing like being prepared...!) and would like to take it with me and set up play lists etc.
I haven't even connected my ipod to my laptop as I've heard that when you connect to it/itunes that yr ipod contents can be wiped if you are already registered with another PC/Mac. So basically I don't know what order I have do stuff so that I can get some tunes I like rather than listening to ex-boyf's taste in music.
Hope this makes sense - never posted on this before and am a bit of a technophobe.
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Hi,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
I believe you want to manually sync your iPod. You might want to look at the following:
Knowledge Base Document #61148 on Managing songs manually on iPod
Knowledge Base Document #61675 on Using iPod with Multiple Computers
iPod 101
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