How to use your Ipod on a Win98 PC:

I found this informative post on the Internet:

http://www.badtvedits.com/ephpod/ephpod275.exe  Ephpod For WinXP
http://www.ephpod.com/ephpod258.exe  Alternative Itunes Ephpod For win98
http://windowsx64.freefronthost.com/ipod/win98-iPod-PSP-v21.zip Win98
Ipod driver

you need access to a friends computer with win xp to format the ipod
for the first time. Only need access to friends computer once.

using friends computer with win xp follow instructions on how to set up 
BUT DON’T TRANSFER ANY SONGS OR FILES TO THE IPOD. 

You must have a freshly formated ipod with nothing done to it
for the ephpod software to initialize otherwise the ipod will freeze.

1) install Itunes on friends computer
2) plug ipod in and format the ipod hard disk using the itunes program
(apparently doesn’t work if you try to format using windows formating
program)

On Win98 computer, do the following:

download and install ephpod 2.58 (it’s a free program for win 98)

Download and unzip the usb driver for the ipod. 
remember where you unzip it to as you will need it when windows asks
you later. The driver is called “win98-iPod-PSP-v21.zip” 

Restart the computer
Connect the ipod to the computer
It will detect the ipod and ask to install the driver, 
chose to browse for the driver manually, and point to the directory 
where you had unziped the driver, win98-ipod-PSP-v21.zip.

now start ephpod
select the removable drive that is your ipod
it should say “copying mac files”, wait a while as it takes about 
2 minutes to complete

If you find the ipod hangs at the apple screen, 
you can recover from this by putting the ipod into disc mode 
(switch hold on then back off, press top part of click wheel and 
center select button for 6 seconds, then when ipod is reseting 
press the center select and bottom part of click wheel for 6 seconds).

Then connect ipod to the computer, start up ephpod, go to itools 
and select rebuild the database file from ipod. once you are done. 

close ephpod, eject and reset the ipod (if it doesn't do so 
automatically) to exit disc mode and go back to normal use mode.

To disconnect the ipod when you are finished exit ephpod then
go to my computer and right click on the removeable drive, choose eject.