IPod Classic 80 songs stay grey in iTunes after synching

After my computer bluescreened, I started up iTunes and iPod again, but everything had gone, including all my playlists. I re-loaded iTunes from my back-ups and wanted to re-load my iPod from there. As synching seemed the quickest way, I chose that (still took 8 hours mind you). I kept getting message that iPod couldn't be read, but after I started synching each time, eventually my whole library was in my iPod again. Only... the songs stay "grey" in the iPod menu. iPod itself plays fine, but as soon as I connect it to iTunes, I can't do anything with the songs. I tried to switch of sync mode, but then it threatens to remove all songs. I also updated iTunes, but that didn't help. Help me out of this crap please

Hello Maart1312,
The songs are grayed out in iTunes because your iPod is set up to automatically sync content from your iTunes library. If you wish to change this, you will have to enable the "manually manage music and videos" option from under your iPod's Summary tab in iTunes as I believe you mentioned above. However, this is the only way to make this change so you can mess with songs directly from your iPod's song menu.
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