Owning a Mac and a PC, how to use my iPod as hardisk on both

I bought my iPod a year ago. At that time, I could use my iPod as a hardisk to transfer files from my Mac to my PC.
However, since I downloaded the latest updates, it does not work anymore. My PC absolutely wants to format my iPod.. And even if I try to do so, the PC does not manage to!!
How come?
I bought my iPod because, not only beautilful and usefull as a music player, it could work as an hardisk. And for my job, this last point was really important to me.
And it did work pretty well at the beginning.
So I expect Mac to solve the problem out.
I am looking forward to any efficient solution.

Sebastian,
Read through this...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131
btabz

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