Over song capacity on ipod

Hi,
I have an 8gb 2nd gen nano and I'm over the 8gb. How can I manually select certain songs to put on the ipod but keep the rest in my itunes? iTunes keeps suggesting that it create a special new playlist with randomly selected songs, but when I let it do that I can't see any of my other playlists on my ipod.
How can I keep my playlists and just unselect certain songs from my music library that won't copy across, so that I'm below the 8gb maximum?
Thanks!

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