Your iPod is a separate machine. It has nothing to do with what you have in your computer except your computer is a conduit to the songs. any other time you use a CD in your iPod does it erase the songs on the iPod??Lastly, you are totally uninformed about LimeWire and ad-aware. Your newness to computering shows through when you claim they have spyware after all the most reputable sites on the net ie: cnet, zdnet cite there is no spyware in these programs.You came here asking us for help, answers. We gave them to you to the best of our ablility.