Duplicate Tunes!

Hey, i have posted this elsewhere, but may hve been in the wrong topic.
"hey, when i scroll through my songs on my iPOD i see a lot of songs appearing twice, although ive only added them ONCE using iTunes. For example, i have an album on the iPod, it has all the songs in the album in order, then after the last one it lists them again (eg: Track1, Track2, Track3 ... Track10, Track1, Track2, Track3 ... Track10)
Is there a reason for this, and can it be fixed?"
This problem annoys me, as it puts so many UN-NEEDED entries on the iPod.

That's weird!
In iTunes > Edit > Show duplicate songs, do they show up as duplicates there?

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