The great switch - new G4 powerbook, old ipod from a windows machine

Hi,
So I'm finally making the switch (oh happy day!), and so far everything's been going pretty smoothly. Using my external hard drive from the old windows machine I've already moved all my data onto my new laptop, including all 16 GB of my music.
But I've hit one snag, my Ipod was set up to run off of my windows machine, and now the new powerbook won't even detect it. I've connected it via both firewire and USB and the ipod simply doesn't show up.
Can anyone suggest what I can do, besides just buy a new ipod? Can I wipe the Ipod clean and reinstall the mac operating system from my old windows machine?
Thanks,
Chris
Power Book G4   Mac OS X (10.4)  

Anything here of any help?
iPod doesn't appear in iTunes or on the Mac desktop.
iPod does not appear in iPod Updater or iTunes in Mac OS X.

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