you, and all other ipod users, should download a copy of ipod-rip from the following site. its a limited use version but i know the full version is out there somewhere.
basically you can rip all the songs from your ipod onto harddrive with this program where as before you couldnt take shit off it. the reason you might want to do that is for backup purposes or for when you cant get to a mac if youre formatted for mac or vice versa for pc and you dont want to lose all your tunes. its super handy.
http://www.download.com/iPodRip/3000-2182_4-10340474.html
have a good day