Trouble after laptop shutdown before ipod ejected properly

My laptop has greyed out the information on my ipod.
when I connected last it asked me if i would like to register my ipod with my library, being not very knowledgable about how itunes works i said no, all the tracks etc. on screen were then greyed out and a small lock appeared at the bottom of the screen in itunes.
I then tried to eject the ipod from the computer, itunes froze the laptop so I had no choice, to my knowledge, other than to shutdown the laptop.
After that I unplugged the ipod and checked that all my tracks were there, they were not. I checked the properties of the ipod and it agreed that there were no songs, photos' or video's, out of the 27.8 gigs on there I now had 27.4 available to me.
How do I get my laptop permission to access my ipod again?

The songs are "greyed out" because you have the iPod set to transfer songs automatically. That is also why the padlock icon appears at the bottom of iTunes next to the space used/available.
If you want the songs to be bold and selectable/editable, then you need to change to manually managing your songs.

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