Is the IPOD Menu's Really Customizable?

I recently purchased a Video IPOD of size 80 GB. I have a doubt regarding its MENU ORGANIZING and customizing for arranging the MP3 songs inside the IPOD device.
How will i include the menu categories like "AlbumArtist", "Grouping" along with the default categories like Alubum, Artist, Genre etc into my IPOD device.
Cause basically i want to include few of the available 28 items (Columns choice) which i am seeing from the Itunes menu View -> View Options to add it to my Ipod device.
Is it really possible?. Or am i expecting something which is technically not Possible at all?
Please mail me to [email protected]

Sorry Jeff,
Please dont mistake me. It dosn't mean that i am not fully satisfied with your answer, may be i felt i should reframe my question in much better way so that it really tweaks others too. Especially IPOD RnD Techical team. I am a strong beliver when it comes to usereasyness and userfriendlyness apple's products always stands ahead of others here i felt if this functionality is also embedded it will be very usefull for end users like me.
Also as a Software Engineer my curiosity level was very much in understanding and i felt it should be very much feasible/posssible cause if they are able to show such Tags like "Album Artist" and "Grouping" in their Itunes -> GetInfo functionlity. I thought there should be options too for including these Tags and play around to include these functionlities in IPOD device too.
Thats why still i kept this Discussion open. If possible let apple Technical Team consider this request and in their future editions of IPOD they can think of include such functionlitys for the end users. So that the Grouping and organizing the menu structure wont be looking much clutured for the end user if he has more Mp3 files in his device.
Anyway thanks a lot for answering.
with regards
Balu.P

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