ITunes does not recognise USB Flash Drive

Hi everyone,
I am repeating this request in the hopes that the daytime crowd will have someone who can help!
I plug a usb flashdrive into my MacBook with iTunes active.
It comes up on desktop.
It does not appear as device in iTunes.
I can move files (albums) to the device from music menu under Go.
I cannot save my playlists from iTunes.
How do I get iTunes to recognise the usb drive.
Thanks,  Steve.

Hello Limnos,
Thanks again for all your help.
Since my initial response I've looked in a little more depth at the track names.
All my files are stored and played at CD quality from the original CD rather than MP3.
It appears that track names are extracted from the Library and look a little different from those that appear in the iTunes playlist.
I see now that the first element of the track name is the track number from the original CD. So if my playlist is made up of 3 CDs then all the track 01s get stored first and played first, followed by track 02s etc.
I do not think it will take a great deal of effort to renumber the tracks from 01 to xty in what ever order I want them played since I usually play complete albums all the way through.
Thanks again,  Steve. 
BTW. Based on this I went out today and bought an 8Gb flash drive that I shall use to take our music with us on holiday.  Saves a great weight in CDs! (and lets us get under new airline weight restrictions)

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