Hi Grajo
Not sure if you've got this solved yet, but I'm using an 80Gb iPod Classic in my 18mth old AGP and I
do need the dongle.
As an aside, the Blue&Me system will still ONLY play .mp3 or .wav from my iPod (even with the dongle), so if your iPod is full of AAC, FLAC, m4a etc (based on how you rip to iTunes) it will still ignore ALL of these tracks and every Playlist that features these tracks. I also discovered that (sadly) once connected to the USB port there is no way of manually operating the iPod itself to play back tracks you want to hear, you have to control it via the steering wheel (presumably a safety initiative), but damned frustrating when you have a co-pilot with the music-listening equivalent of ADHD as I had last week
HTH