Switching iPod from Mac to PC

I have a 60 GB video iPod that I originally formatted using my iMac G5 in December last year. My wife uses it primarily, and she has a Sony Vaio laptop running Windows XP. She has been relying on me to update her iPod but now wants to do it herself so she can have her own library and use her laptop to shop on iTunes.
So my question is: if you were me, what would be the simplest, most efficient way to get the songs she currently has on her mac-formatted iPod into a library on her PC? Should I just bite the bullet and rip all her CDs again onto her laptop, then reformat the iPod? (There's about 10 GB on her iPod)
Is there a way to save the music she already has on her iPod somewhere, reformat the iPod, and then somehow reload the saved files onto her PC?
What would be ideal would be just to plug in the iPod into her PC, and have iTunes recognize it as is, but I know that's probably not possible. Is it?
Maybe we should just get her a new laptop ...

Personally a new Mac Portable sounds like a good option I might be a little biased in that regard.
However, here is the steps:
1) Formate the iPod for Windows by restoring it on her computer
2) Follow the steps in this article to transfer your music over using the iPod:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173 for iTunes 7
or
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304304 for iTunes 6
3) Then update the iPod from her Windows-based PC

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