Worth it for an older iPod?

I spent the better part of my day trying to undo Version 7 and going back to Version 6 - and finally did, thanks to help here. After all my problems and after having glimpsed Version 7 for the few hours I had it, I'm wondering: is it worth upgrading if you have an older iPod? Mine is an old 30g, with the buttons and the wheel, no video, no color. All the changes seem geared to take advantage of the newer models with all their bells and whistles. Should I just hold steady with what I have or upgrade - once the bugs are worked out - is there any advantage?
Windows XP

I have a 60GB iPod Photo. I don't recall being able to access my iPod's playlists from inside iTunes. With v7, I can by clicking on the on the > arrow. At work, I Play music and audiobooks via iTunes that are on my iPods HD.
However, I haven't figured out how to do this in iTunes 7 yet. I need to finish reloading the iPod after iTunes erased it after switching form auto-sync to manual sync. It takes a few hours to load 40+ GB of stuff.
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