ITunes skipping songs

Something new happened this moring, iTunes just won't play certain songs. If I start a playlist, then set random off, iTunes will start a song, then it may breifly highlight the next six or seven songs before it finds a song that it can play.
Yes, the songs are checked, the computer is authorized, they are both ACC and MP3, and the songs exist on disk and iTunes has access to them.
I can right click and get infor, everything is just fine. If I select a song, the artwork is displayed, it just won't play anymore. Out of a playlist of 540 songs, I found 18 that play.
Any Ideas.
Message was edited by: GregF-ATL

If the problem is in playlists, there may be a problem with sorting – try changing the sort column, then play some songs. Then the sort order can be put back to what it was.

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