Finding songs NOT downloaded? Missing info

Have a brand new 80 gb video iPod. After downloading ALL my music from iTunes, I notice that the iPod has about a dozen FEWER songs in the library than my iTunes collection. Is there some way to locate or identify which tunes/files were NOT downloaded to the iPod?
Also, I have found that some iPod searches don't yield the same result as when I search on iTunes. That is, if I search iTunes for songs by Dave Loggins (under artist) field, it finds all six songs. However, when I used iPod's search feature, it only finds one of those songs. iPod finds them if I search by track name, but not by artist name. Anyone else run into th is?

1) If you are a .mac member, you can download "Backup" free of charge. It WILL create periodic backups of e.g. itunes, and when you need to recreate your itunes library, it WILL correctly reproduce with all tags etc. Used it myself three times during migration from G5 to Mac Pro.
This should avert further little disasters like that.
2) With reference to your "albumless" songs, I can only suggest using the mouse, clicking on "albums" in itunes, which will list all songs in album order, and hopefully, all "albumless" songs will be in that group. Then, via "Get info" (select the song, then press "cmd+i" key combination), you should in "info" tabe be able to rename the songs and albums. Probably piece work, but if you do 2 first, then do a backup as per 1. I am sure there is other backup tools out there, but this worked for me. I know how painstaking it is to organsie itunes if it's a mess.
3) Itunes also burns the songs onto cd with an "authorized" computer. but I found, reinstalling from cd did not work as well as backup.
4) Automator (part of your apps) may also work.
Good luck

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