Genius keeps choosing the same songs

No matter what song in my music library I choose, when I hit the Genius icon, I get the same list of songs.
What is Genius Mix?
Thanks for any help,

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I'm the happy owner of a 2G iPod nano (first generation) that I was given a few weeks ago. I'm using it together with iTunes 9.0.1 on my mac, and I have a question about the autofill feature.
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