Playing music from my ipod on a different computer

Hi,
I have an ipod mini, which is synced to my iMac at work, where I have a large itunes library. At home, I have an old G3 iMac, with only little space, so I don't have any music in my itunes library. Up to recently, I just played my music from the ipod at home. But since syncing at work with itunes 7.02, I can no longer play music at home from the ipod. I can see all the songs, but they are not playable, both in the ipod music folder, or the selection folder created.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
c
G5 iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   Networked to a xserve
G5 and G3 (OX 10.3.9) iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Are the songs showing up as light grey text? Grey text when you look at the content and lock symbol at the bottom of the screen would indicate that your iPod is set to automatically update. If you want to access your iPod directly, play it through your iTunes, connect it to a second computer etc. you would need to change the update method to manual in the iPod preferences: Managing content manually on iPod

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