Anyone know how to use this user-unfriendly Ipod Shuffle?

I cannot believe it could possibly be this hard to add music to an Ipod shuffle. With my mp3 player I just drop music into the appropriate folder. Done.
How in the **** to I add music to an shuffle?
I have a masters degree in IT and 10 years experience, and I cannot believe that people LIKE Mac's and talk about how easy they are to use and there is no simple way to drop music into an ipod and play it!
Thank god this was a gift from work, I will NEVER purchase a MAC product, ever, period.

Unfortunately for me, simply plugging in the iPod
shuffle doesn't seem to work. I've installed my
library with iTunes, plugged in the iPod, let it
auto-sync, hit the 'eject' button through iTunes,
unplugged my iPod, plugged in my headphones, hit
'play', and watch the little light blink green and
orange, alternating, for 2 seconds which, according
to the sheet included with the iPod, means there's no
music. And so I say to myself "***? I just had
iTunes copy music over itself. Surely these two are
'made for each other'?" Well, maybe not. I then
restore my iPod and repeat the process with the same
conclusion. I've tried this on one computer with
Vista, and one (different) computer with XP. Any
chance it's a bad iPod? I have a nano and love it,
but this one's quickly losing the favor of myself and
my wife.
Shuffle 2nd gen
Windows XP
The wustion that should be asked and answered is what format. encoding and bitrate is the music iTunes copied?

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