Help - I am trying to manage ipod manually....

I am not getting the "Manually manage music and video" in the Summary window under the options area. The only option I am getting is 'Open Itunes when this ipod is connected", with the "only sync checked items". Is there someplace I need to select the manually mange to show up under options?
I have the 5th generation ipod video and I have upgraded itune to the 7.
Thanks for any help

Thanks for replying John... I have checked "sync only files checked", but that seemed to freeze my ipod and I had to reset. I spent the day yesterday trying to get this back to where I had it before I started messing with it - to no avail. I will attempt again tonight to recreate my ipod. The songs are in itunes, but they will ot sync to the ipod. I guess if I get it back to where it was, I will just let it automatically add files. Thanks for your help, any new suggestions would be great.

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