Itunes/ipod adding song problem

everytime i go to add songs, it wont let me, and under my ipod where it says music, when i click it, the font is not bold but lightened and i cant add songs nor delete any, how do i fix it? thanks

As an addition, these are the directions for something I'm trying to add to my notes, thus why I want to find Ipod as a device in my computer.
1. Mount your iPod as an external drive via FireWire or USB, just as you would to work with iTunes.
2. The iPod will show up on your computer just like any other internal or external drive.
3. Open the iPod “drive” as you would with any disk on your computer.
4. Open the notes folder on your iPod on your PC or Mac - on Windows it will show up in My Computer, on the Mac in the finder sidebar, or in the Computer (use the Finder’s Go Menu to open your “Computer” window)
5. Drag the unzipped folder titled WDWToGoTrial, or WDWToGo_LiveTrial or WDWToGo__MenusTrial into the Notes folder of your iPod
6. Unmount your iPod and you're done

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So you would have thought all would be well with the songs, then? Unfortunately not. iTunes 7, slick and all as it appears, seems to create a situation whereby, once I disconnect from iTunes, ALL songs suddenly only play for 1-3 seconds before STOPPING, with the 'playing' bar jumping all the way to the last second and holding there. Skip forward to the next song, and same thing!
This cannot be an issue in relation to Anapod, as it never affected iTunes seeing the songs updated to the iPod via that method before. What iTunes 7 does seem to have done, though, is prevent songs being played in the normal way by introducing this frustrating 'start, 3-seconds, stop' issue. It will eventually go to the next song after about 1-2 minutes of silence, and then the process repeats. Throughout all of this, the songs do play normally within iTunes 7(0.2) so it is not a hard drive or corrupt file problem.
I should say that this is not crucial or a desperate situation, as I've already found a way to fix it. Moving BACK to iTunes 6.0.5 (or any 6.x.x version) and playing a few songs within iTunes, and then disconnecting will miraculously return all the songs to the usual full playing ability.
Unfortunately for Apple, this means (for the second time in a year) that I cannot update to their latest release as it ruins the playability of my iPod. I would like the extra features in iTunes 7 (for playing songs on the computer - as I said I never used it for updating anyway), but this latest glitch means I'll be using the more stable and reliable 6 for some time to come.
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