ITunes sees iPod...but songs do not show up in library

Long story short...I gave my son my old iPod mini. When we couldn't connect both it and my new video iPod to our new computer, we took it to his grandmother's house to use. I've downloaded all of the iPod/iTunes updates, and when the iPod mini is connected, it shows up in iTunes and you can listen to the songs...but it wont let us make any changes. The songs do not show up in the "library". We can't burn any songs to disks, we can't move anything around in the playlists....HELP!!!!!!! We've already de-authorized our old computer...so why wont this darn thing work???

The songs that you had on your original computer are saved on that computer, and your iPod. You cannot drag songs off of an iPod and place them into a new library.
You can, however, use your iPod as an external hard drive, and use it to transfer files to a new computer:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
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