Syncing and wifi question

Just wondering if you have your ipod registered on two computers can you add stuff from one computer without losing or overwriting what was on there from the other computer. More specifically I used my desktop for all my music and it kinda died on me and I still have my laptop with additional music but I don't want to lose what was already on the ipod. Hope that makes sense. Also whenever I connect to the wifi and update apps it continually tells me that account info has changed even tho I made sure it was all correct. It's getting pretty annoying. Any help is very appreciated.

It's possible. Both computers have to be authorized with iTunes under the same user account and you should be fine.
I've done it with my wife's Macbook and my Powerbook and it worked OK. Nothing got overwritten - stuff sort off got added on top of each other. A bit messy, though.
As far as the second question, sorry. I don't know.

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