To Synch in iMac on UBS 1.0 or iBook on UBS 2.0

I have an older iMac G4 with no USB 2.0 ports and a new iBook with USB 2.0. My kids have iPods generation 4 ("iPodG4"). We have a very large iTunes library and tons of iPhotos which I have been trying maintain on the iMac as our central "tunes machine for synching" (all music purchases made here). Periodically I back up the iMac music library to a firewirehard drive and copy to the iBook so we can used the iBook as a portable "jukebox" when hooked to speakers.
I am getting an iPod 5th generation with no Firewire support.
Anybody have any opinions about switching the main "tunes machine for synching" to the iBook? It seems I really don't have any alternatives if I don't want it to take forever to synch the iPodG5. I would prefer to keep the iMac as the central machine because it doesn't "walk".
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Carl
iMac G4 1 GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.3)

yo Carl
you can use one of those sharewares that transfer musics on ipod to ur mac.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20083
this is just one of the. once you got all ur songs on ur ibook from the old ipod, then you can go ahead put all the songs on ur new ipod.

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