Help- IPOD will only play ITUNES purchased

I have only had my Ipod for 3 days. I imported three of my personal CD's on to Itunes and purchased one song from Itunes. When I play songs it will skip through all of my imports and only play the downloaded song from ITunes. There arn't any exclamation points by any of the songs imported. I have been trying to find information on how to fix this problem for the last two days. Please help. Thank-you.

If they play in iTunes on the computer:
Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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2. Create a new user in the system.
3. Download the free song of the week from the iTMS in the new user account.
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5. Restore the iPod (using the iPod updater) in the new user account.
6. Sync just the free song of the week and see if it plays on the iPod.
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