I have had my Ipod video 2 years this xmass, and over that time I have brought a new pc and have never been able to sync my ipod back to my pc, whenever I DL new music I just drag the file over to the Ipod icon in itunes and drop it. It works and I have been happy . Today I realized if my Ipod crashes I would loose 19gigs and that would suck ;( I see an option to consolidate library in Itues but I am not sure what will happen. If i press this button will all my problems go away ? I don't want to loose my music, I really need to put the music on my laptop before its too late...Can anyone help me ?