Auto Sync Missing Songs

I have my iPod set to automatically sync to my office PC, so I don't have to worry about missing anything. Now my library shows 5656 and the music library on the pod 5636.
The Diagnosis tool says one or more of the sync tests failed, but the help button takes me online to a page describing how I Tunes has a diagnosis tool...
I've looked for songs with exclamation marks, I've tried many things but have no luck...
Any ideas?

You might have moved those 20 songs manually to another folder.
Look for songs everywhere on your computer with *.mp3 as the search parameter.
Then, put all your songs to the very same folder and make sure iTunes points to there (Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Change).

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