Can't See All Folders of External Drive on Network

I recently got my first Mac - a beautiful MacBook, which I love. I switched from a WinXP system. I have loads of photos and iPod videos on an external drive (fairly new), and music on a separate external drive (both are USB). Both are connected to a desktop G5 system in one room of my house, and we're using a wireless network to see everything.
My Mac's iTunes sees all the music fine, so that's not a problem. However, the other drive... it's seen, and I can get to the pictures (normal pix from my cameras), but the Mixed Media folder, which contains the iPod videos, appears as that grey, glass-tv-screen-looking icon and won't let me do anything with them - On one hand, I want to import my iPod videos to my new iTunes library, and on the other hand, I want to be able to manage my photos on the Windows side (using Parallels) because since I was a WinXP user all these years, I have Photoshop for Windows. But I need my iPod vids. Anyone know what I need to do to fix this?

Gail Burt wrote:
that grey, glass-tv-screen-looking icon
Do you mean like this?
I'm not an expert on this but I get these files now and again with my job where clients upload fonts to our FTP from a PC. These are files that OS X doesn't recognize or doesn't have the software to open it. It's probably because your drive was formatted for PC. Do the iPod video files have a file extension at the end of the filenames such as .mp4 or .mpeg (or whatever the correct extension is for iPod video, mp4 I think)? If not and in my experience, adding the correct extension to the file usually enables OS X to recognise and open the file. Try it with one of your files and see if it opens.

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