Ipod Nano 3rd Gen: some songs only play in iTunes, and not on the iPod, help?

I have a couple of songs on my ipod which will not play on the ipod: when I click them, it skips and plays the next song. They play perfectly fine on my ipod touch and itunes though.
Any solutions?

Sounds like the problem I have with my nano 3g. Mine happens with Podcasts. One plays audio, but not video, the rest don't play, skips through all the audio podcasts. I'll watch your post, I did the 5Rs.

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