Can't Play Songs on iPod when connected to iTunes

This is a problem with my daughter's iPod, not mine (thankfully).
When she plugs her iPod into her computer, she sees the iPod icon in the iTunes Source list. But when she clicks on the iPod, ALL of the songs are grayed out and can't be played. Doesn't matter whether we look in her iPod Library or in the playlists.
All of the songs on her iPod are in iTunes, but she was hoping to delete the songs from iTunes in order to save disk space, and just play the songs on her computer thru the iPod connection.
Anyone have any idea why her iPod songs are grayed out, and more importantly, how we can fix this?
Thanks,
Steve

Resolved at home.

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