Can't Do Anything To Songs Within Ipod...

I registered my ipod on itunes on a different computer, but I use my ipod on that itunes and on the one on my own computer. I dropped the ipod one day and plugged it into my computer. It asked me to register my ipod, so I did, but afterwards it wouldn't let me touch any of the songs in the ipod. All the song names were faded and it wouldn't let me rename anything, or create new playlists. Help?

Grey text when you look at the content and lock symbol at the bottom of the screen simply shows that your iPod is set to "automatically update songs and playlists". Connect your iPod and go to Edit>Preferences>iPod, check your settings and change the update method to "Manually manage songs and playlists". That will open up access to directly change things on your iPod: Managing Your Songs Manually

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Check your update settings. Connect your iPod and click on it's icon in the iTunes source list (the narrow pane on the left). This will bring up the preferences tabs in the main pane on the right. The first tab you'll see is Summary, look for "manually manage songs and videos", if there is a check mark there then the iPod is set to update manually and you have to drag songs from the iTunes library to the iPod to load them on. If you want to update automatically you need to remove the check mark from there (I would also remove the "enable disk use" check mark unless you want to use the iPod as a removable storage device) and click the Apply button in the right hand corner:
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