For understandable reasons, Apple are saying the iPod won't work cross-platform without a re-format. Since a Firewire HD formatted with Fat32 works quite happily on a Mac (at least it does on OS9), why shouldn't an iPod also formatted (as per Windows version) with Fat32? Has anybody on the list got a Windows iPod they could try on a Mac? If so: 1)does it mount and work on the Mac desktop as a normal HD 2)does the iTunes software work Perry Mitchell