ITunes 7.0 - Summary screen - what is up with my "other" capacity?

In the newest version of iTunes - when I am on the summary screen - at the bottom of the page - where you see the color-coded explanation of what is taking up the capacity of one's iPod - the largest part of my used space is listed as "other"(in orange) - and is taking 10.25GB - and yet I have no idea what this is - or how to delet/clear it!!! Any help!? Thanks so much!
Compaq Presario   Windows XP  

A restore returns the iPod to factory settings, restores the iPod software and erases everything stored on it.
See: See this: Restoring the 5th generation iPod (iPod with video).
The storage space taken up by "Other" can be made up of, notes, podcasts or any files of any kind you've added to the iPod whilst using it as a hard disk. it's not photos which are stored under "photos".
There will always be a few MBs of used space under "other" but yours is unusually large.
If the iPod is enabled for disk use, you can look at the folders on the iPod through Explorer and delete anything you don't want.
Otherwise restore it and reload everything from your iTunes library.

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