ITunes Keeps Resyncing Music

I have been having trouble with iTunes ever since I got my 16GB iPod Touch for Christmas. Upon plugging in my iPod, iTunes will resync the same group of songs that were already there. iTunes will remove them from my iPod and put them back on . This is very frustrating as it takes a fair amount of time to transfer 250 songs over USB 2.0 and really makes me hate iTunes because sometimes I need to toss a TV show on and go but I can't because it syncs TV shows and Movies after music. My library is too large for my iPod Touch and I will probably be upgrading to the 32GB (thank you Costco 90-day return policy) so I have to use a smart playlist to choose what music goes on. The playlist is set to Live Update so I think that this could be the problem. Anyone know how to guide me?
Thank You

It is just a chopped down version of my library without genres like: Jazz, Classical, Orchestra, R&B, Comedy, Blues, Children's Music (When did that get into my library???), and Easy Listening. My library minus the stuff I don't like. I also tried turning off Live Update and that did not fix the problem
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Sometimes this in in the many of hundreds.
For example, I plug in my iPod to sync up new podcasts, next thing I know it is syncing up a few hundred other MP3's that have not changed.
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I think I may have found the answer on another forum. The suggestion is that the ID3 tags have got corrupted. The fix suggested is -
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select get-info,
select the options tab,
select “remember the play position” and say yes to it,
then apply the changes.
Wait while iTunes changes every song in your library to this new option.
Then, go through the same process to turn Off the same “remember the play position” option and wait while iTunes changes all songs back again.
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Thank you for providing so much information about what is going on. It sounds like you have your iTunes Library on your G:\ drive, but it sounds like iTunes is not opening iTunes Library.itl file on the external drive. Follow these steps to point iTunes to your G:\ drive:
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Additional information
If you do not see the screen above, then you did not hold the correct key at the correct time. You may want to try again. Note that if you pinned iTunes to the Start menu programs, and open it that way, it may not work.
Once you select "Choose Library," you will need to navigate to the iTunes Library.itl file on your new external drive.
You can find the full article here:
iTunes: How to open an alternate iTunes Library file or create a new one
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1589
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Do you know how iTunes match the music? For example, I ripped the CD "Rent [Film Soundtrack]" and there are actually two discs, so I have two album names Disc 1 and Disc 2 while iTunes version only has one album and with different name of course ("Rent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)"). In this case, will iTunes Match work?If not, is there anyway that I can make it work?
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