ITunes/iPod with a small hard drive?

My sister has an iBook Graphite Special Edition laptop with a 9GIG (?) hard drive inside. USB 1. She has asked for an iPod. I thought I was over the slow transfer rate over USB, but then I remembered that she can't actually hold many songs on her small drive.
Is there anyway to add music to an iPod a CD at a time, then remove the music from the computer to make room for the next set of songs? My thought was loading the iPod slowly but surely.
My second thought was I could preload the iPod with one of my computers, but then it would be linked to me and she couldn't add to it, anyway around that?
I would love to hear your thoughts,
Shawn

You can use all iPod models, except the shuffle, with multiple computers. To do so, go to iTunes->Preferences->iPod and select "manually manage music and playlists". The iPod shuffle does not have this feature.
This will make possible both the scenarios you describe.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Sara.
Edited to add: perhaps the real roadblock will be the version of the system the ibook is running. Is it OS 9? I'm not sure that the iTunes that comes with OS 9 is compatible with any iPods. Current iPods list Mac OS X 10.2.8, 10.3.4 o4 10.3.9 as their minimum requirements.

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