Mac/Windows -- Which One?

My iPod was orginally formatted on a Windows PC. After I switched to an iMac, I placed all of my music onto the Mac, and I currently buy songs from iTunes on my Mac. I recently bought a Windows-based laptop. Last night, updated iPod software came across my iMac, but it couldn’t update my iPod because it was formatted in Windows. The software asked me if I wanted to instead reset to the factory settings, but I declined because I wanted to avoid an impending disaster. Do I have to update my iPod on the Windows machine? Should I use iTunes on the Windows laptop? Can you change your iPod to a Mac-based one? There are too many **** rules!
iMac G5, Rev. B Mac OS X (10.4.4) 2.0 ghz; 2 gb RAM; 400 gb hard drive

Probably the easiest way to use an iPod on both Mac and Windows computers is to format the iPod (using iPod Updater) using the PC. This will force your iPod to use the Windows file system (FAT32) which both the Mac and PC can read from and write to without the help of additional software. Of course then all your software updates for the iPod will have to be done on Windows.  If you need to use a Mac (HFS+) formatted iPod on a Windows PC, you'll need to install some 3rd party software such as XPlay 2.0 (which you can get from MediaFour Software). This will enable your Windows PC to read a Mac-formatted iPod.

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