Extra songs synchronized to iPod randomly

For some reason, when I sync my ipod 5.5G using iTunes 7.4.2 on Mac OS, randomly about an extra 300 songs are sync'd besides the actual new material in my library. This doesn't happen every time, but it's quite frequent. I thought this might have to do with my having added album art to some tracks, but I haven't been doing that for awhile and the songs shown being retransferred aren't ones I've modified or played for awhile. I have about 7,400 mostly MP3-format songs in my library and have a full, automatic sync set up.
Any ideas what causes this? Has anyone else experienced it?

Well, if it resyncs the one track each time and if you have the patience to stare at the notification area all the way through the sync you might just spot iTunes saying Syncronsing <track name>.
Otherwise the show duplicates feature will list all track names that occur more than once. Not that useful since the same title can be used for many different songs but it will cut down the number of albums you need to scan through. In an album ordered list, any album showing 2 tracks would be a candidtate for further checking.
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