One song in my iPhone music list has "chasing arrows" next to it and won't sync

A recently purchased song won't sync from iTunes 10 to my iPhone 3GS. It looks normal in iTunes and plays correctly, but it doesn't appear on my iPhone, and when I look at the iPhone's music list under the "Devices" folder in iTunes when I have the phone plugged in, the song appears there but it's grayed out and has a stationary "chasing arrows" icon next to it. Anyone know what's going on and/or how to get this song unstuck?

I had this issue on my iphone 4, and two songs listed on the iPhone in iTunes had the dotted circle.  I researched it, and I found a hundred different answers.  Some were complicated like uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes.  All I did was this...  In iTunes under Music, I simply unchecked Sync Music, and I deleted all music from my iPhone.  I then checked Sync Music, chose all the songs I wanted.  No songs in iTunes had dotted circles, and all songs on my iPhone played.

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