Is it safe to buy a new 80GB Ipod?

I currently have a Nano, but plan to buy an 80GB Ipod. does anyone know if you have to have Itunes 7 for the new Ipod to work. With all the problems I've read about regarding Itunes 7 - i'm a bit wary of upgrading from Itunes 6 and losing all my music and podcasts i have stored.
Will I be wasting my time buying the new Ipod right now and finding that it won't work?

Get winamp and when you are installing uncheck device support.
Then go and download mlipod (a plugin for winamp). No more iTunes yay!
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