Manually Sync Music

My iPod nano (3rd Gen) is having problems with the " manually sync music" option via iTunes. It is causing my computer to freeze up for a while and has not had the ablity for me to use the " manually sync music" option. Does anyone know how to use the " manually sync music" without crashing iTunes??
My iTunes version is: 11.0.1

I also am having this problemwith the new version of itunes. When I want to choose manually sync, itunes gves me this threatening windowsaying that all of my music will be taken off my ipod. I just want to add new songs just purchased!
Used to be that you could buy new songs, have your screen with the attached ipod open, and then drag and drop, but I am not seeing where I can do that any more. It looks like the connected ipod icon is at the top left hand, but it doesnt appear to have the drag and drop capability when I click on that screen. My recently purchased playlist remains blank!

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