An interesting song transfer question

I'v recently bought a Macbook Pro 17" a few weeks ago, and today I got an iPad 2. I purchased one album from the iTunes store using the Macbook and imported a bunch of songs into the iTunes library via CD's that I legitimately bought onto the same Macbook Pro. So far so good. But when I try to sync the CD imported music from the Macbook Pro on over to the iPad 2 via the iTunes sync'ing process, the songs don't seem to show up on the iPad 2 itself. But when I click on the iPad 2 device icon from the Macbook's iTunes view, it seems to show that all the songs are on there on the iPad 2. I go over to the iPad 2 and I can't seem to see the songs from the CD to save my life. The one album that I purchased from the iTunes store on the Macbook shows up on the iPad 2 just fine. Is there any way to see the CD imported songs on the iPad 2? Or is it that the only songs I'll ever see on the iPad 2 is whatever I bought on iTunes?
Thanks in advance for any answers to this question!

Folks - here's what I have just learned - my entire music library has itunes files in mpeg-4 format AND windows media audio files as well. In other words, all of my albums have each track twice.
So it shows up as 35 GB on my IPOD classic - but when I copy my library to the external hard drive it copies each song twice (once in itunes format and once in Windows Media Player format) - meaning I have 70 GB of space being used for 35 GB of music.
Any ideas on how to fix this mess?

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