IPhone play count problem

Hi guys,
This is my first post - my first real problem since switching to Mac a few years ago - but I seem to have a problem with the play counts on my iPhone 3GS. With my iPods the play counts updated as usual and stayed the same and increased correctly as I listened to music.
When I got my first iPhone - the 3G a few years ago - I noticed the play counts on the phone wouldn't stay the same or update correctly from sync to sync.
I'm using a MacBook Pro running the latest version of iTunes and I manually manage my music so I don't have to sync every single song - and maybe that's the problem because when I sync my iPhone the plays on my iPhone seem to increase drastically while the plays in my iTunes library stay the same. Like, my most listened to song has 1020 plays and I know that that's not right because I ain't been listening to that song 1000+ times.
I was hoping someone could tell me how the play counts works on the iPhone. Is there a way for the play counts on the iPod component of the iPhone to work like a normal iPod? Should the play counts be the same on the iPhone and iTunes library? I know it may be trivial but I'd like to keep track of how many times I listen to songs.
Thanks for any help provided,
Matt.

I don't know if this is how it'd work, but if one syncs with WMP, it makes it so the files in your WMP library are like those on your player. So if you have a certain rating for a song, that rating will show up in WMP, and perhaps if you played the song a few times on WMP, that play count might transfer over to the player. Just a theory, but who knows. Probably just a bug.

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