IPod Touch messes up the play count

I was wondering if im the only one with this problem. Every time when i connect the ipod touch to my PC (currently still PC but getting a Mac on sunday), and than disconnecting it again, using it a while and connecting it again, the play count of some songs are completely wrong. For instance i listened to a song 4 times and suddenly the playcount shows like 253 or something. i dont sync the ipod touch with my pc library because i dont want to. is that the problem?
oh and another quick question (not topic related), is it possible to copy the information files which are used for my ipod touch to keep track of such things as play count, title, artist, album etc, onto the iTunes library? because some of my songs dont have the correct info and i sorted everything on my ipods library which i wanna transfer to the computer (not the music files itself. only info files). is that possible?
cheers and thanks

i am having the exact same problem.
my ipod touch puts play counts up to over 1000 after listening a couple of times..
make sure music is just stopped, not just paused on a playlist, and you dont have it on repeat mode.
i have had to reset all of my play counts of every song (right click in itunes > reset play count)
i think i may take it back if this keeps happening.

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