The Grey Shading Mystery

Alright, I see that there are some other people running into versions of this. I installed the phone, activated it and synced some of my music from my Itunes library onto the phone. What I noticed however is that all the music listed underneath my iphone is grey. It plays on the phone, which is fine, but my question is, how do I delete songs from my phone, if I cannot click and select any of the grey listings when I am hooked up to my computer?

I figured out how to delete but still am clueless about how to play the shaded files. The way you delete tunes is through whatever folder you used to synch the songs. For example I have all the music that I want synched under the purchase folder under iTunes Music Store. Whenever I delete or add tunes then synch it reflects under the summary screen for iPhone. They really need to get on this issue, I don't like synching music, I never did it with any of my previous iPods. They need to bring back click-and-drag, the manual feature. Hang in there!

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