Shoutbox

You are stuck using iTunes to store the photos on because of how the software reads it. All images are loaded into one encrypted file.

Not sure about the videos haven't had any experiences with it yet.

Also the "Enable Disk Use" is actually quite misleading and the real purpose of it is undocumented by Apple and they use it in the wrong way in their troubleshooting documents.

The Enable Disk Use function does Enable Drag And Drop to the iPod SOLEY for iTunes. The true purpose of Enable Disk Use is to allow you to drag and drop files from within Windows Explorer to the iPod through iTunes. Thus you don't actually need to have the file in iTunes for it to be transfered to the iPod although it is recommeneded. Whether or not this option is checked does not limit your ability to be able to access the Drive on a device level through Windows Explorer nor does it put the iPod into Disk Mode or prevent writing to the Disk through Windows Explorer.

I hope this clarifies that feature a bit.