ITunes Prefs: Video Section Grayed Out

I have collected a small group of videos for my new iPod: a TV show converted with Podner and now in a Podner playlist, a few video podcasts, and a few Handbrake-converted movies.
When setting my iTunes prefs for this iPod (I also have a 4G), I set the Music tab to manual transfer, the Podcast tab to selected playlists only (and they transferred successfully), the Photo tab was available but I left it alone, and the Video tab was readable but everything was grayed out. I couldn't make any choices (although the "selected playlists" option had my Podner playlist listed).
I've rebooted, re-sync'ed, etc., but Video is still grayed out. And the Videos section of iTunes has all my videos included, so they are definitely there. Any ideas what's wrong?

A couple of us on iLounge finally managed to fix it. We both were trying to put nothing but our videos on the new 5G, reserving our music for another iPod. So we had our iTunes prefs set to Manual for the 5G. I changed that to Only Sync Selected Playlists (for Music) and gave the 5G one small playlist of music, and that "ungrayed" the Videos tab. Kinda sounds like a bug in iTunes to me.
I don't know if this helps with your situation. Hope so. It's an awesome iPod once you manage to get everything working right.

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