Yeah I feel like a moron, I need some sort of program that can re-encode my music files, so that itunes will recognize them and put them in my IPOD....

and yes I have realized that IPODS are the dumbest mp3 players that you could ever buy... my justification for having one is that I got it for free and didnt spend the $99,999,999,999,999.00 + dollars it takes to have one