Can't manually sync songs, just albums,playlist, etc.

I don't want all the songs in one album, just a few songs from a certain album, but I can't find out how to sync just a song from an album. All the extra songs are taking up unnecessary space. I clicked on manually sync artist, playlist, and album but it keeps downloading everysong for the album. I tried deleting the songs from my iPhone but they would just come back whenever I sync. After that I tried unchecking the songs under the "On This iPhone" tab but its not clickable

If you manually manage then you check nothing under the music tab, you drag and drop music. The music tab is for syncing.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535

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