Syncing library in manual mode

Hi folks,
well, I have a little question that schould actually be very easy to answer by a small attempt of trial-and-error, but unfortunately, I'm not able to try things out myself at the moment, so I thought I'd ask my question here. Probably someone can give me a quick answer on this one.
So, here I go: Imagine you have your iPod set so it doesn't automatically sync with your iTunes library and playlist, but so that you have to update and remove songs on it yourself. Now, in this configuration, you mount your still empty iPod. When it appears in iTunes, you simply "grab" your Library in the sources pane and drop it onto your iPod symbol. As a result, all the songs in your Library will now be copied to your iPod. So far, so good!
Now imagine you add a song to your iTunes Library. When you repeat the thing above - dragging and dropping your iTunes Library onto the iPod - the newly added song will be copied over to your iPod. Again, very fine!
Now comes the thing I'm not sure about: Imagine you delete a song from your iTunes Library and then, just as we've done above, you drag and drop your iTunes Library onto the iPod. What will happen? Will the above drag and drop action actually result in the iPod and iTunes Library being syncronized and thus the song you deleted from the iTunes Library also being deleted from the iPod? Or will the song you've deleted from the iTunes Library remain on the iPod?
I know that the above scenario (syncing the whole library) can better be done by using one of the two automatic syncing options in the iTunes->iPod-Preferences. Still, I'm curious what result the above mentioned procedure would produce. So, anyone out there who happens to know it or who is able to quickly try it out?
Greetings,
Nils
Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Now I've had the chance to try it out myself so that I know what happens.

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