Unable to transfer songs from iPod

I have an iMac at home. While on vacation, I purchased an iPod for my wife. Since we were away from home, we initially set up the iPod on my sister-in-law's home PC (they also have an iPod, so they knew how to "start"). Now we are back home and I am trying to "Sync" up our iPod (which now has 128 songs on it, primarily from copied CDs, but some from purchases at the iStore using the In-law's PC) to our iMac. When I connect the iPod, I select the "Transfer Purchases" option, which implies it will now copy all the songs from the iPod and place them on my iTunes play list. However, nothing seems to happen. My iTunes play list is still empty. How do I transfer these 128 songs to my iTunes play list?!?! Help!

You won't be able to play the iTunes purchased songs until you authorize your computer with account you used on the Sister-In-Law's computer.
Copying from iPod to Computer threads...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5044027&#5044027
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=893334&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432&#797432
Also these useful internet articles...
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/
http://playlistmag.com/secrets/2006/12/twowaystreet20/index.php
http://playlistmag.com/help/2005/01/2waystreet/
Patrick

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