does anyone know of a FREE ipod rip program?

Do you want to transfer videos or just songs?
Here are two options that rip videos as well as songs:
Go here and look at Ipod Copy Master
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/ipod_to_computer_software/

There's also Free Ipod Copy Maager:
http://www.aimersoft.com/ipod-copy-manager.html