Unable To Manually Drag & Drop Songs To iPod

I've just installed the latest iTunes v7.0.1.8.
My 4th gen iPod connects fine but I can't view what songs are on it or manually 'drag' songs to it from iTunes.
It shows up in 'Devices' and when I click on it I get a 4 tab option screen (Summary/Music/Podcasts/Contacts) - in Summary I've ticked 'Manually Manage Music', I then click on the 'Music' tab but all I get is a screen showing Sync music and a list of all my different genres. I ticked the sync music box and managed to wipe 3500 songs from my iPod!!
I reinstalled the songs automatically but still can't view them in the Music screen, although I can play them on the iPod via my computer!!
I'm running Windows XP
Please help.
Windows XP
Windows XP

I finally found a page in Apple's support pages that describes exactly this...right after I posted the question. Go figure!
But thank you, Katrina, it definitely helped!

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