All sogs on ipod grayed out in iTunes

Greetings.
After connecting my iPod to a pc the iPod is updated with songs but all songs are grayed out and can not be selected or played in Itunes. Not sure why this happening or if I should expect it to happen but thought I'd ask what might be causing this.
Thanks.
alan

Matt, they're grayed out and the lock is shown when you have your iPod set to Automatic updating in iPod Options, the default. If you wish to set this process to Manual, they won't be gray and the lock will go away.
Automatic updating makes the iPod/iTunes experience much better, however, in my opinion.

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