Manually Manage iPod Touch help

Im wondering if using an iPod Touch am I able to do the following;
I want to have it similar to my other ipods where I could Manually Manage Songs and Videos (by just dragging in dropping the songs/videos onto the iPod in iTunes using both OSX and XP)
I have to use various computers/OS during the week (and sometimes during the day) and im wondering if i plug in my iPod Touh into my MacPro (OSX 10.4 and XP) could i transfer songs onto it under BOTH OS' without having to restore it each time ic onnect it?
*im not syncing to a library or anything, im manually adding tracks myself*
thanks!

Thanks alot for your help.
I appreciate it.
It was just confusing as the documentation on apple.com didnt really say much about that and I was testing out an iPhone on two different computers (OSX 10.5) and XP Pro system.
It wasnt "synced" to any machine or library it was manually managed.
But everytime i wanted to add a track it said you must restore this iphone before proceeding so i assumed the same was true for the ipod touch??
thanks again!

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