IPOD as a disc drive ? solution to my inquiry?

I shuffle music on and off my HD quite frequently. I would rather have iTunes acknlowledge and recognize what is stored on my iPOD rather than my HD. when launching iTunes, I would like to see the contents of the iPod, not what is being stored by iTunes.
If I delete a music file from my HD, I dont want it deleted from my iPOD. do I switch to "disk drive" function on the iPOD? is there a function within iTunes that would accomplish this?
Thanks in advance,
Rockin'

thanks much peeble, I will give that a shot. I didnt realize that "manual" would allow me to accomplish this.

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I've spent hours and hours trying to fix it, and have found nothing really worthwhile online. I'm coming here in the outside chance someone else may have experienced something similar.
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s3,
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rapouc wrote:
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