Please Help - New Ipod

Hi,
I got an ipod with 30gb for Christmas - it came pre-loaded with 100 songs from the person who gave it to me. They created a playlist of all my favorite songs... which I love!!! However - when I come to hook it up to my pc/itunes it keeps asking me to delete everything on my ipod in order to put new songs on it... What do I do?????
Please Help!
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Well, this is just guess but iPods are very ,uhm, protective about who can use what music, etc. Your fiend synched the pod to his/her computer to load the music that is what is causing the issue. I'd ask said friend to burn you a DVD of the playlist in question (not a back-up), wipe your pod on your computer, load the DVD ,and reinstall the music on to the pod via your computer. Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Chris
P.S. I say DVD because to get everything to work the music will be in AIFF format which takes up a lot of room. You could also break the play lists into more manageable sized chunks and use regualr CD's.
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