I see the same as you on my 20GB 3G - and also wondered if I was missing something silly.

Shuffle shows up in the "Settings" menu, where I think it always was.

I used System Update to get the iPod updater.

James.

iluke,

Thanks, you've explained it perfectly.

I've now got Shuffle in my Main Menu.

James.
(Edited for useless spelling)

I know I'm a little behind but I just downloaded the iPod updater 2/22/05 through software update. I could have swore that when I downloaded it, it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 24MB, but Finder lists it as being 59.7MB. Regardless, does anyone know how much of this 24MB (or 59.7MB) data is being transferred to my iPod or where I might find this out? I would just compare total capacity used before and after the update, but alas I already did the update before I thought of this question. Any thoughts?

I downloaded the update, installed it, and everything worked for about a a day or two. Then my iPod refused to show up in iTunes or mount on the desktop at all. For the past week or so, I did everything I could to make it reappear-- downgrading back to the previous iPod update, resetting the iPod, booting my iBook in safe mode, running the diagnostic tests on the iPod...nothing. I finally had to send it off to Apple and received a replacement model yesterday (this being the 3rd-generation iPod with the dock connector and touch wheel). When I hooked up the "new" iPod to my computer using a friend's iPod cable, it worked perfectly! iTunes filled up my new 'pod with songs, iSync ran, everything was la-di-da. Then I went home last night and hooked the iPod up to my laptop again, this time using my iPod cable that I've had since I first bought an iPod back in July 2003. Nothing. The iPod is charging from the computer but as far as my iBook and iPod are concerned, neither one exists to each other.
Has anyone else encountered this decidedly weird problem? I had thought it was my iPod being cranky but now it seems to be either my computer or, more likely, the cable itself? Any thoughts on the matter are greatly appreciated. Thanks!