First time syncing to iTunes

Just hooked up a brand new iPod Nano 8G. iTunes automatically downloaded 3 songs to the iPod that I cannot get rid of. They show in my library as gray so I can't click on them and press Delete as advised by the Help pages. Any ideas? It's very irritating!!

Hello aetnas888,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
If you wish to delete the songs as you are trying to do so now, you must have the iPod set up to "Manually manage music and videos" by enabling this option from under your iPod's Summary tab in iTunes. Otherwise, the music will be grayed out as it is now.
To learn how to delete content from your iPod if you have it set up to automatically sync with your library, see this Apple support document.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1855
B-rock

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