Syncing 2 Ipods, please read

Okay, I bought 2 Classic Nano 8 gig. I have Itunes setup on my CPU at home, & at work. The one at home is my wife's, the one at work mine.
How do get the playlist I created off my Wife's Ipod onto my Ipod without deleting either of our entire libraies? It won't let me click & drag when her's is hooked upto my CPU. Please help, because I don't wanna try to download all that music 1. again, & 2. at work.
This music is not purchased from I-tunes also. Thanks....Vegeta

*Then come to work, & have my Ipod set on manual, & Sync & that playlist will go into my library*
No it won't. You can use iTunes to transfer any songs on the iPod that were purchased from the iTunes Store. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod to a computer
The transfer of content from other sources such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
TuneJack Windows Only
iPod2PC Windows Only
iGadget Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
SharePod Windows Only
iRepo Mac and Windows
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac and Windows
There is also a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows or a Mac. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod

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Thanks for taking the time to read my posting.
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Log off of any other users on your computer.
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Thanks. I worked out a simpler method of turning off the internet access - just switching off my wireless modem. Either way, this works and with the PC not connected to the internet, all three Apple devies will sync.
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