IPod 5 only playing purchased songs

I plugged my iPod into a mac so it could charge, I made sure to disable automatic syncing in preferences. When I unplugged the iPod, it shuffles constantly until it finds a purchased-in-iTunes song. It was working two hours ago, so of course this is freaking me out.
I have updated to ios 7, made sure iTunes was the newest version available, checked the manually manage checkbox, gone into my iPod settings under share and turned on Home Sharing (in iTunes as well) as well as 'show all music'.  I have synced the iPod as well as shutting it down, rebooting it, and reset all settings.  Nearly all of my songs have a red symbol next to them, which is a circle around a square and I don't know what that is.
I am hoping for help before I have to go to an Apple Genius Bar, please help me figure out how to fix this. 
If the only solution is to delete all the music on my iPod and just re-import it, please tell me.
Thank you!

I have a great deal more experience with syncing music to iPods than I do to iPhones so I'm not sure if restoring the iPhone will do the trick - if your problem is caused by a corrupt backup restoring won't solve it. Can your problem be caused by a corrupt backup? That's what I don't know. Step one - click off a couple of the songs, sync to delete them from the phone, click them on, and sync again. If they play (and I expect they will) you know what to do. Ugh.
Playlists are your friends Go through your songs and make at least one based on what's clicked to sync. Then I think you can control (maybe alt) click to toggle them all at once.

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