What does 'Other' cover in IPOD Capacity?

As a family we have a few ipods of differing sizes and generations. All working fine apart from one thing.
When I check for capacity usage in itunes two of the ipods show quite a lot of memory taken up under the 'other' catagory. Does anyone know how I can reduce the amount of information stored under this area? One of the ipod nanos has almost half of it's current space used up by this catagory of data.
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CG

In a related question, is 20.3mb of info in my 'Other' considered a lot?
Also, below is a list of the files and their sub folders:
Calendars (empty)
Contacts (empty)
iPod_Control (device(preferences/sysInfo)iTunes & Music)
Notes (instructions)
BOOTEX (the results of a disc check of the iPod itself)
My question is other then the iTunes folders, can I delete any and/or all of these files and their related contents and if I do so, will my iPod still work correctly?
Probably a stupid question I know, but I really don't know much about the inner workings of the iPod and I also don't know which program to use to read any of the files listed.
Thanks for any information that you can give me related to these questions.
Cheers!!
Michael
iPod Mini 4GB
eMachines T1840   Windows XP Pro   iPod Mini 4GB/iTunes v.7
eMachines T1840   Windows XP Pro  

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