Songs/albums on ipod classic invisible on music sync page, can't remove

I noticed that my ipod classic 160gb running 2.0.4 has songs on it that appear when looking at "music" from the left pane of itunes, but when I look at the sync page under the music tab, the albums do not show in the "albums" list. I'm manually syncing music so I use the checkboxes under genre, album, artist to manage what's on the ipod.
There is no way I can see for me to remove any of the songs since the only place they are visible is on the grayed out music list page. They don't appear under "manually added songs", the albums aren't listed in the "albums" window, they don't appear in "artist" list. It's like itunes thinks they aren't on the ipod from the sync screen.
The albums all show up in the itunes music library, in the music window on the ipod, and I can see them from the ipod menu.
This seems like an itunes bug but I can't find anything on the forums about it. Can anyone help?
ipod is running 2.0.2
itunes 10.1.2
mac osx 10.6.3

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