Playing music in iTunes from iPod

Hi there,
I have two Macs (dual 2,7 G5 & 17" Powerbook). I have my i Tunes library on my G5 and my 60GB video iPod updates off of that library. To save drive space on my Powerbook, I used to use my iPod to store my music and would connect it to my Powerbook essentially using the iPod as an external drive. This worked great but lately my entire library is greyed out and I can't play anything off of the iPod through iTunes and I am not sure why. Any ideas anybody?

I think the iPod has to be set to manual mode (in preferences)
In auto-update mode, it won't do it.
The other way you could do it is to use your iPod as a disk only, and store your library there. You can then point your library on both Macs to the iPod.
It can be relocated in: preferences/advanced/general. You can point to the library on the iPod on both Macs.
Scott

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