Question about video settings

Hey, I have music videos and tv specials on my ipod and was putting them under the correct settings recently instead of them all being listed as movies. The tv specials were fine under movies, but the music videos are another story. While they do show up on the music video listing, they also show in my music listing- its really annoying because I expect the video and all I get is a preview shot of what is in the video and i do hear the music playing. My question is this due to me changing the equalizer settings in the info on these music videos to music videos and putting the artist name on or what?
5th Gen 30 gb iPod,Dell 5100 Inspiron Laptop Windows XP

Kristina, it might be worth checking to see if you're running afoul of this problem:
Videos labeled TV Shows in iTunes don't appear on iPod
(but i'm not sure that's it, given the symptoms you're describing.)
there are some other possibilities that might be worth checking on here:
iPod plays audio but not video of movies

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