How to manually manage my music in itunes 7.0?

in itunes 6.0, all i did was click on the ipod nano icon and the complete list of songs would show up, which i could drag in new songs and delete old songs.
intunes 7.0 still has my ipod nano marked as manually manage music, when i click on the ipod nano icon under the device option, but there is no song list in sight. even when i click music tab inside the ipod nano icon page, all that i see was just a sync options list.
i thought about clicking the view tabs on the top right, but apparently that was not an option when i am inside a device.
can someone who knows what's up shed some light and let me know where i did wrong? just how i can manually update the library on my ipod nano? thank you very much.
60gb ipod photo and 4gb ipod nano Windows XP

intunes 7.0 still has my ipod nano marked as manually manage music, when i click on the ipod nano icon under the device option, but there is no song list in sight. even when i click music tab inside the ipod nano icon page, all that i see was just a sync options list.
click that little triangle next to the ipod in the sourcelist. when it's pointing down, you'll see a list of the playlists on the ipod, and "Music" which contains all the music on the ipod. click on one of those to see the contents of the ipod.
this document has been updated to reflect the changes in itunes 7 with regard to manual managing:
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