A few iTunes songs don't copy

I just got my iPod a few weeks ago, and I have about 600 songs on iTunes so far. I have my iPod on automatic updating, which has been working most of the time.
There are about 3-5 songs (I haven't checked all 600) that didn't copy. They are mp3 files, iTunes plays them, and when my iPod is plugged in, they show up among the iTunes files. When I unplug my iPod, they aren't there.
The only thing I know is that these songs specifically don't have an album listed. The first few songs that I saw with this problem, I made up an album name, and they were suddenly listed. That's bizarre.
Any ideas? Thanks a lot.

First of all what type of iPod do you have? A Video iPod a nano or an older iPod? Have you tried downloading and installing any iPod updates to it? You can go here and download the latest iPod software updates (2006-03-23 or in other words March 23rd 2006 update) http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/ , this might fix your issue and even if it doesn't atleast you'll have the latest new features and all. Make sure you have the latest updates to iTunes as well

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