Bump. Soundscape, while you're still good-naturedly dispensing ipod function tips, could I pick your brain once more?

Apparently, if you want to update your ipod library, any songs you've stored on it will be deleted if these songs have been deleted from your itunes library, once you sync up these 2 devices.

Now, I'd thought that once I'd transferred songs from itunes to ipod, I could delete those in my itunes library, as they'd be taking up a whole lot of hard-disk space. Please tell me this is possible.

My iPod's hard drive crapped out, so I can't answer that question with certainty. Here's my guess: no, not if you delete them within iTunes. However, if you delete the respective files manually (e.g., Using Windows Explorer or Mac OS X Finder) this should "con" iTunes into thinking they're still there, and they'll still show up in iTunes (being stored in its database) and you should then be fine. Try it with one song or something.

And I'm always willing to give out tips and help.

Thanks; I'll try it with one song.