sinclair_tm

For issue 1, yes the songs that are on the iPod will be grayed out. That just means you can't play the songs from the iPod in iTunes. For issue 2, I'm not to sure. My iTunes will copy playlists to my iPod that I didn't tell it to, and when I look at them on the iPod, they are blank. As for your issue, if it were me, I'd make an On-The-Go playlist of the songs you want and listen to it that way. The next time you sync with iTunes, it will copy it to iTunes. Then I'd rename it and then sync that playlist to the iPod.

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