Can no longer manually transfer songs from my itunes to ipod

I use my ipod on many different computers and my main computer (the one at home) was just updated today to the newest version of itunes. I purchased a lot of music from the itunes music store, plugged my ipod in, and when i tried to drag the songs from my library to my ipod (which is what you do when you manually transfer), it wont let me put the songs on my ipod!
I am upset because i just spent like 50 bucks on songs and now my computer is not letting me transfer...does anyone know why it wouild be doing this?
Thanks
Lauren

I have the same issue. I have a first (or second) generation ipod w/ a scroll wheel. I unfortunately updated itunes to #5 this morning. Now I cannot manually transfer any itunes music store purchased songs from my itunes library to my ipod.
I wish I had an answer for this (except hindsight: never upgrade if everything works fine) because I am sooo aggravated right now. Please someone helpÉ
Georgia
Okay: I just downloaded the latest ipod updater: rebooted my ipod after installing and rebooted itunes. Now I can transfer music from my itunes "purchased" to my ipod... Thanks all!!!!!!
G

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