Itunes for ipod on another computer

Oh how I hate iTunes! (I don't understand it anyway).
I have an older iPod Touch (3rd gen?) that I have synced with a laptop computer. I also want to sync it with my desktop computer (where I've put some songs into iTunes previously). However, when I tell it to sync music with this computer, it wants to DELETE all my songs from the iPod that I loaded from the other computer?  Why? It's the same iTunes account and the same iPod, just two different Windows computers. ARGGHHH! I just want to put my new tracks from the second computer onto the iPod without having to first copy them to the laptop.  Any way to do this?
TIA,
Owen

This is a limitation that's assumed to be based on agreements between Apple and content providers, such that iTunes and iPods cannot be easily used for illegal sharing of copyrighted materials. If you want to sync an iDevice from more than one PC you need to replicate your library to be able to do so. I use this approach and can sync my iPod's from any one of four different PCs.

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