New 5th Gen Ipod - Ipod updater?

I just bought my new 60gig Ipod video last night and its wonderful. I have seen references to the Ipod Software Updater on here and was curious am I suppose to do this to the Ipod I bought just last night? What are the benefits if I do need too?
Thanks
Isaac

From my personal experience .. install what comes on the CD first before you try to get a newer version or something. When I tried to install them separately (downloaded new versions) they screwed up everything. Another strange thing was when I upgraded to a newer ipod s/w and uninstalled the older one the sync thing quit working. It required I have both installed. I guess the unistall removed some required files. And this is windows and its touchy.
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