iPod Q about syncing iPod - does this mean transferring files from PC to pod?

I have a new Ipod, 120gb. Lovely.

It's connected to my pc and the screen on the pod says that it is syncing, and not to disconnect it.

On the iTunes screne on the pc it says pretty much the same thing, except that it's sycning about 3500 photos.

The thing is, when I look in Explorer I cannot see any files of ANY kind in the iPod. Funny that, as I was sure that a bunch of music files had been transferred earlier.

Is what's going on 'syncing' going on on the pc side or is the iPod involved at this stage?

Thanks for reading.

Ok, done that, thanks. Still doesn't appear to be anything on the Pod as yet.

Perhaps I have to wait until it's finished sycning?

Does the iPod act in the same way as windows where if you drag and drop any pre-existing file will be over-written (and prompt if so)?

Hmm, because the sequence of events today was this:

iPod arrived in box, I unpacked it and managed to get the language stuck on Chinese/mandarin/Japanese/whatever.

So the advice on the forum was to reset the pod, which was done on the itunes screen, but not before quite a few albums had been automatically transferred from the pc (that seemed to happen automatically).

But the restore action required a pc restart. After that was over, I went back to the itunes screen but nothing happened that I could see, so I selected a load of albums in Explorer and dragged them across to the itune screen with the already-loaded music albums.

Ever since the pod has been synching but now it's just doing the photos off the pc, yet I cannot 'see' in Explorer any files (in itunes I can see the first load of music albums loaded.

Sorry to be so long winded about this explanation. It's just the best way I have of repeating the sequence of events.