Is it itunes or the ipod?

I have been successfully using a second generation ipod on my Toshiba Satellite laptop for many months. I bought one for my wife and set up her own profile on the laptop. The ipod syncs fine and itunes imported music from my portable hard drive. The problem is that itunes wants to sync every song in the music library whether it is selected or not. I have restarted, restored, reinstalled, and reloaded the library all to no avail. It is supposed to just sync selected songs. Any idea how to get it to stop? Do I need to just bring the ipod back? Thanks.

Sorry, this was all user error. I found the solution. Thanks.

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Try:
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http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/ipodsupport/erase/index.shtml
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
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Not good
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Hello Ventanilla 97,
I agree with planb77 with recreating your itunes library. That will fix your issue. If you would like more step by step info go here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15028503#15028503
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~Julian

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or
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