Using an NW-HD1 on a Mac.

Guys, I was just wondering if I can access the contents of a Sony's NW-HD1 from within the Mac OS. I just need to update some of the songs the device contains and do some additional mendings, etc.
Do you guys know if I just need to plug it into my Mac or do I have to install any drivers beforehand or will I be inevitably forced to download all the correspondant Sony suite for Windows?
Thank you very much in advance.
George...
MBP 15in 2.33GHz. Mac OS X (10.4.8) other 200+ posts with the old Discussion Forums (now lost)

I have no idea I'm afraid.
All I could see is that from both sides (Mac and Win) on my Mac I could see what I think is the contents of the device. In the OSX most of the files have .DAT, .BAK and .OMA extensions. Also, I believe the number of files do not correspond to the number of songs in the device. My question here now is, is there any way I could extract this songs into my computer so I can play them directly with something like iTunes? I don't mind converting to other formats but obviously first I must find an app that can actually handle them.
On the WinXP side, there's an app by Sony that can read the songs and play them (SonicStage) but, although I tried to transfer them from the device into my computer I could not. Windows Explorer gave a negative result as well. Found no app that could handle them (except the mentioned above). I don't really remember if there were more files with different extensions than the ones I saw on the Mac side.
What can I do? What I'd like to do in the end is have a playlist in iTunes with those songs and add some of my own so in general the playlist contains all the previous songs but is only freshen up a bit.
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