"cannot be updated because Itunes selected no longer exist"

Hello. When I hooked up my Ipod for the first time it sucked up the 800+ MP3 files from My Music folder. Now I want to update my library and delete them all from the Ipod (not my hard drive) and start over with songs from the Itunes folder.
I unchecked all of the songs in the library and reconnected, but it will not delete them and I get this error message:
"Cannot be updated because one or more of the Itunes playlists selected to update no longer exist"
I'm thinking I need to "reboot" the Ipod and clear out the memory but I don't know how. Or somehow figure out how to get around this error. Can anyone help???
Thanks!

Have a look at this.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121728&tstart=150

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