Two iPods - Two Independent iTunes?

Hi,
A bit of a strange one here. I've had a search and couldn't find much, so would appreciate any ideas.
I had a 3G 20gb iPod and have just bought a new 60gb one, so I have wiped the old 20gb one and have given it to my mum. Now, what I'm after doing is this:
I have a PowerBook with my music library saved on it, and also an external LaCie 160gb external Brick hard-disk. I don't have masses of space left on the PB drive, and so would like to save all of my mum's music in a separate library on the external drive. I want to do it like this for a few reasons - I don't end up with rubbish like Dolly Parton on my iPod, and I need to preserve space on this internal drive.
I tried simply downloading iTunes from the Apple website and dragging it into the LaCie drive, but it wouldn't let me do that because it's not the drive that the computer boots from. I don't know how else I can do this.
If anyone knows how, or has done a similar thing I would be grateful.
Thanks, and I'm using iTunes 6.0.4 if that's any help.

You don't need a 2nd iTunes installation, as you can set up preferences for each of your iPODs seperately.
Make one auto-sync all playlist and the 2nd one only sync certain playlist - whatever you want.
Just connect an iPod - then set its preferences, then proceed to the next one.

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