Very sorry. I hit the wrong combination of keys. At any rate, I'm attempting to discover why my ipod is no longer playing audible books, and I wanted to see if the way I am adding music to it might have something to do with the problem. Also, when I prepare to disconnect my ipod, I hit "eject," but when I unplug the ipod I still get a message about the device being disconnected improperly. Do I need to go into finder to disconnect the ipod? OK, here are my steps for adding music to my ipod: 1. Creat a new playlist in itunes. 2. 2. Select all songs, movies, and books that I want on my ipod and add them to the newly-created playlist. 3. 3. Under preferences and sync-ing, I uncheck the option to have ipods automatically sync to my itunes. 4. 4. I go to the ipod options and select the "songs" tab. I check to have only selected songs and playlists added to my ipod. Then I go and check the newly-created playlist. 5. 5. All the songs in that playlist are then added to the ipod and none of the books. 6. Anyhow, this might not make a difference, but if there's another way to add content to my ipod, please let me know. 7. It seems that when I sync my entire library, audible books are being added just fine, but I don't want my entire itunes library on the ipod. <grin> 8. Thanks in advance for your help. 9. G