IPhone 4 - Ghost songs (brrrrr)

Hello,
I'm having a real strange problem...
When I copy/sync my playlists (from iTunes 9.2) to my "cool-brand-new-iphone-4", the songs are copied correctly (I can find them by searching them) but playlists are empty or almost (I can find 10 songs instead of 100 in my playlist "TOP 100" for exemple)
Another exemple, in my playlist "Add Recently", I have almost 50 songs in iTunes, and after sync, inside my iPhone 4, I can just see one album (not the last one). But, as I said, the songs are sync (I can find them by searching on iPhone) but not in the playlists.
This problem occurs in all my playlists.
Do you have an idea ? I have no problems with my iPhone 3G or my iPods
Thanks a lot !
Cédric.

I have check you links, but It doesn't help me...
I'll try to explain better with a real example:
- On iTunes, my playlist "TOP 100" is full with, well... 100 songs.
- I synchronise It (manually or automatically both tested) on my iPhone 4
- I go to to my "iPod app" in my iPhone 4. Playlist "TOP 100" is write
- When I go inside this playlist "TOP 100", I found only 10 or 15 songs (mostly same artist) and nothing more.
- If I made a manuel search (with spotlight) I can found manually the 100 songs.
- So, songs are correctly copied, but not appear correctly in playlists.
- It work fine with my iPhone 3G, iPod Touch and Nano.
I try the help on iTunes, Apple.com, ask to Apple, search on forum, websites... nothing
Thanks you !
Message was edited by: Cdrik

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