Front Row won't read most of the music in iTunes

When I go to my iTunes folder playlists from the desk top I get everything that I expect to see there. When I open with the remote, almost everything I see, for every playlist, says it can "shuffle songs" but there are no individual songs listed.
This applies to music bought from the Apple store and CDs I have copied to iTunes. I have played with preferences to no avail.
This is a new MacBook Pro with all the software updates available as of last night.
Advice welcome ... otherwise this Front Row / remote is a silly piece of add on equipment that isn't worth anything.

sorry for the slow reply, but what format are the songs in? mp3? AAC?
i would suggest converting to AAC if it is in anything other than these 2 (if it is in apple lossless, its fine....)
ben

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