its not quite rectangular. half retangular one side more rounded. You'd notice it if you had one.
not a real big deal tho. pick up a USB adapter at compusa or best buy. or a firewire card. (my firewire plug is on my sound blaster audigy card)
both the adapter or the card will run about $20. But the adapter does have both the firewire and usb on it. i picked it up anyway so i could take it to computers that didnt have firewire. hehe. neat to have.
Yeah, thanks guys. I'll pick up a IEEE 1394 PCI card soon. Thanks for the help guys. I tested it at my friend's house and yeah, just like Stonecutter said, it charges when it's connected to a firewire port.
I didnt read the other posts in the thread .. but if your ipod came with the stand you put it in the stand and plug it into the back of ur computer .. its a firewire to usb port... but its gonna tell you that you plugged a high speed usb into a non high speed port but you can still use it to like .98 mb per second for mine which is still awesome