I don't know how to answer anything but saving your music that's on your IPod.There are programs I've heard of you can download (some for free, some not) where you can transfer your music (not sure about anything else) onto a new computer FROM your IPod. From what I've read about them, the jest of the program is you plug your IPod into the new computer (where you've downloaded the program too), you tell iTunes if it comes up that you don't want to sync it and just close iTunes, then you open the program and it kind of copy's and transfers the music to the computer.I've never used one of the programs personally, I was going to use one but decided to burn all my music to disks so I'd have hard copies of it all.You'd have to research, maybe even on here ask if people have used them and look around online for reviews on them, but I have some tech-savy friends who say that's the draw-back with iPods, usually you lose it all.Good luck