New laptop, new itunes rewrites all material on ipod????

mt wifes ipod. she had her cousin set it up months ago since we had windows 98 on our desktop which is not supported by itunes. I got a new laptop with XP on it so i figured I'd load some more stuff on her ipod.... it is going to wipe out the old stuff????? Any way to prevent this?
How long should it take for 12 or so cds worth of stuff to transfer to the ipod?

You can do this...
Using iPod With Multiple Computers
You could also transfer all the songs from the iPod to the new computer so you have everything on the computer and can transfer normally...
http://discussions.apple.com/messageview.jspa?messageID=797432
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