(More) Shuffle problems

Hi all.
Just bought my first shuffle last week, and I am having no end of trouble.
It went through all the set-up process fine and it synced automatically, the problem has come when I try to Autofill, it just will not do it, Itunes says autofill is completed but nothing on the Shuffle has changed.
Also nothing will sync in the order I put it in (all my music just dropped into the Shuffle randomly the first time it synced). When I try to move things around in Itunes (create playlist etc) it just runs so slowly that I feel like smashing the whole thing to pieces (I can't even move songs around on teh shuffle itself it takes that long just to move one song!)
Any ideas as to what may be up with it?
Thanks.

i've never installed itunes and i synch my suffle with ml_ipod:
http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/
it replaces winamp's default mp3 player support for exclusive ipod support.
Has advanced features that i doubt are even in itune's synchronization optoins.
Also lets you restore and initialize your ipod, useful if it ever does that blinking green light thing.
been using the shuffle for months now and have not had any problems at all!

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