I am trying to get my daughters Ipod Classic/I-tunes to recognise an audiobook. I-tunes rips it OK and gives the genre as 'Books and Spoken' but when I load it into the Ipod it goes in with the music, not the audiobooks section. Is there some way to get the Ipod to recognise it as an audiobook and put it in the audiobooks section?

Try rightclicking on the item - select "Get Info", click on the "Info" tab, and at the bottom there is a dropdown box which is called genre. Select "Audiobook" from that, and that should do the trick.

Just done that thanks but the drop down list doesn't have audiobooks in it. It has identified it as 'Books & Spoken' which you would think is the same thing.
I am using latest I-tunes 7.6.2.9 and a 20gig 4th Generation Ipod classic.

Thats odd, my iTunes, (same version as yours) has Audiobook but not Spoken word.
Has it classed it as an audiobook already in itunes?

Rats. They are already in .m4a file type so that file converter won't. Definitely gives the genre as 'audio or spoken' but not as an audiobook. Looks like I'm still stuck and off to return the ipod first thing Sat morning. Thank for the help.

Extensions changed to .m4b
I-tunes doesn't seem to have noticed. Still plays them on the computer as if they were .m4a You can't do that to any other file extension I know of and have windows recognise it as the same file. Still gives the genre as 'Books and Spoken'.
As in my last post Ipod is now back with oldest daughter so I don't know if I 'Sync' it now it would recognise them as Audiobooks. Thanks for the ongoing advice. Sorry I didn't see it yesterday before I drove up to visit her.