Drag and drop songs gets a search box looking for autoplay

Hi,
All of a sudden I'm having problems with my shuffle. I reset to default factory settings hoping that would help, but no luck. When I drag songs into my shuffle a windows search box (with the flashlight) pops up and it's searching for "autoplay". Itunes indicates it's updating my shuffle with the songs I'm adding, but when I play my shuffle there is absolutely nothing on it. Went through the 5 R's to resolve the problem and got stuck on deleting the ituneshelper.exe folder - told I was denied access. At a loss as to what to do now except buy the new generation shuffle! Thanks for any help.

Itunes indicates it's updating my shuffle with the songs I'm adding, but when I play my shuffle there is absolutely nothing on it.
hmmm. it might be worth checking to see if you're getting a version of the issue described in the following document:
Windows confuses iPod with network drive or hard drive and may keep iPod from mounting or songs may seem to disappear

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