Video Ipod Connectivity Issue....??? Pleeeeze Help!

Hello Everybody,
We have a 5th Gen. video IPod and had recently put over 1000 songs on it from a PC based iTunes. In the past, we had also put some music on our IPod from different computers (Mac & PC) but as soon as we connect with our eMac (OSX 10.3.9) all of the previously saved songs are deleted as iTunes sync the IPod with our songs library.
We believe that there might be some settings that we need to change so iTunes will not sync music automatically and delete the previously songs. Could somebody please help us navigate how to put some more songs on our IPod without deleting our precious songs library.
Thank You.
God Bless Us All

See this.
How to use an iPod with more than one computer.
Btw, this is the iPod Classic Mac forum. The iPod video has a different forum.

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