Unocking the music on my iPod in iTunes

Hi all, I'd be grateful if anyone could help me out on this: I've been uploading to my new 80GB Classic through iTunes on my Dell Windows Vista laptop. A few days ago my internet connection died, so I gave my brother, who has a Dell XP desktop, my iPod and a bunch of CDs to upload for me, rather than me having to type all the details out manually on my laptop. I got the iPod back yesterday. My brother couldn't upload the CDs onto my iPod on his computer - there was an authorisation issue with my iPod. I connected the iPod to my own laptop and loaded the CDs, typing the details in but now the music on my iPod is locked in iTunes - the text showing all the music on my iPod is grey rather than black and I can't drag it or right click on it. I can still load music onto my iPod but once it's on I can't manually manage it, I can only synch it automatically. I have an old Nano and that doesn't have the problem, so I presume the issue arises from some authorisation / locking type issue when my iPod was connected to my brother's PC. If anyone has any solutions to how I can unlock iPod music on iTunes I'd be very grateful. Thanks, Dave.

Any iPod that is set for auto-sync will behave this way. In order to make changes, you need to make changes to the songs in your library and then re-sync. Only an iPod that is in "manual mode" (i.e. drag and drop) allows you to edit the content on the iPod itself.

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