Continuous play of songs limited to recent downloads

About a week ago after downloading 2 songs from the iTunes Store, iTunes began only playing the recently downloaded songs continuously. No matter which song I play from my music library or from any playlist, the next song becomes a recently downloaded song. Also, if I hit the NEXT control (>>), the next song will be a recently downloaded song. If I hit >> until I get to the end of my recently downloaded songs, the player quits playing songs. I have since downloaded further songs and the same thing happens, with only songs downloaded in the past week will play continuously. Any ideas?
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Have the tracks become unchecked? iTunes will skip unchecked tracks, so if the bulk of your tracks have become unchecked, iTunes will play one and then skip to the next checkmarked track. If this is indeed the case, re-checkmark the tracks - Command-click on any checkbox will select or unselect them all - and you should then have continuous playback.

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