Ipod with Titanium (Firewire/USB 2.0 questions)

I have already read some of the previous threads and would like some expert help (suggestions).
I have the 867 Titanium and didn't carefully read that the new ipod is USB 2.0 only compatible and NOT firewire. It takes me like 10 hours+ to load my songs on this thing!
I am already using the PCMCIA card slot for my wireless/airport express network.
My questions are...
1. Should I just buy a second card and use it when I upload or update my ipod?
2. Is there an adapter that allows dual access (wireless & USB 2.0) or just USB 2.0 to Firewire?
3. Is there any way to change the firmware or the software package within the ipod such that it DOES update using firewire?
I don't like having to plug my ipod in now, and wait until tomorrow afternoon before its finished, seriously!
I appreciate any help that you can offer, thanks!

While we (wife & I) have both a 20GB+HP (updated software) and a 60GB Black, I was very disappointed in the new 60 Gb model(last generation, whatever) as it won't support Firewire. My wife's 20 Gb updates in roughly 15 seconds, something the new 60 requires 15-20 minutes to do, identical updates, side by side.
I say this because the 60 was an extended warranty replacement for my trusty 40GB Gen III, which made me an iPod freak and as far as I know the first old guy "on my block" to have an iPod. I'm a Street rodder and many of my associates now use them as their music sources also.
I was told, or actually, it was inferred that the "Firewire Support" was abandoned because most PC users have only USB ports and technology, and they are the "Market". . . By persons inside Apple . . a step backward, it seems to me.
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