Catagory changes when sync

When I sync my 80gb ipod with my computer all my podcasts and all but one of my audiobooks become "music" on my ipod. They are catagorized properly in itunes. This makes "shuffle" a pain on the ipod and makes it hard to find the books and podcasts. I noted some others have this problem with audiobooks or movies too, but not podcasts. My movies and TV shows sync'd fine (and so did one audiobook, but not 3 others)???

I found the post below under other questions related to audiobook issues similar to mine. I followed it with a couple minor changes and it fixed my audiobook problem. I deleted the audiobook file from itunes (but kept the file instead of moving it to the recycle bin). I sync'd my ipod to remove the file from it. Then I changed the file extension as describes and added it back to itunes. Then sync'd my ipod again and everything is where it should be.
"Re: Audiobooks - Not showing up in iPod Music > Audiobooks playlist
Posted: May 16, 2007 12:02 PM in response to: DC Hero Fan
I think this has been covered in several posts (search under "audiobooks"). Basically, even the stuff you download from iTunes Store is not always formatted correctly for your iPod to place in the correct spot.
Downloaded books show up in iTunes under Audiobooks, but not on your iPod under the same. Close iTunes. From windows explorer, find the audiobook in your My Documents/My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music folder and change the extension on the file from .m4p or .m4a to .m4b and then relaunch iTunes. Find the audiobook and play it for a few seconds so iTunes properly recognizes the file. Make sure that it is listed under the genre "Audiobooks" - if that genre is not available, pick custom and create it. Right-click the file and pick info, then options and make sure that the buttons for replaying from last position and skipping during mix play are selected. Re-synch and it should show up on your iPod under Music->Audiobooks.
Books that you import from CDs have to be manually configured to show up as Audiobooks - again, details can be found by searching these forums."

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