IPod Nano and Play Count in iTunes

I don't usually pay much attention to play counts on my sixth generation iPod Nano. But the other day I was reviewing the Top 25 Playlist and noticed it was full of songs that I don't play that much or that I tend to skip when they come up on shuffle. Looking at my iTunes library on my windows PC I noticed that songs that should have high play counts are listed as never being played. In addition, songs that I know for a fact I had played earlier in the day had last played dates that were several months old. Upon searching through the forums, I found may posts about playcounts not tracking properly. But none of them matched the exact problem I seem to be having.
Following from recommendations in the various threads regarding problematic playcounts, I reset my iPod to factory settings, recreated the library in iTunes, resynced the iPod and iTunes libraries, turned off cross-fade on the iPod and made sure that ITunes was set to automatically sync. Doing so reset the playcounts to 0 for my entire library in both iTunes and on my iPod. I then played eight songs on the iPod. Two of the songs I skipped part way through. When I plugged my iPod in to my PC, the iTunes notification came up saying my iPod was being synced with my iTunes library. I was estatic to see that the playcount in iTunes totaled six like it should. That feeling disappeared quickly when I noticed that not a single song listed as being one of the six played songs was a song that had actually been played. In addition, two of the six supposedly played songs were songs that are in my iTunes library but not uploaded to the iPod. I repeated the exercise with exactly the same results...play counts were correct but the songs identified as being played didn't match what was actually played.
What am I missing?
Cheers,
DarWun

I have just noticed that the play count has been updated after I restarted my PC but only for the song I've listened after last connection so all my song count for the last week I've spent without connecting the iPod has been lost. Is it normal that you need to restart your PC before connecting iPod if you want your play count to be updated? I normally leave my PC without restarting for weeks..

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