Ipod nano playlists are strange

Hi. I have an ipod nano - not sure which generation - it is silver with a touch screen - tiny approx 3.5 cm square.
Suddenly some of the playlist songs I have had on my ipod are missing. Most of the playlists have reduced themselves by 1/2 - 1/3...in other words if the playlist on my computer has 25 songs, there might be 5 on there - there could be 8 - it is random which songs are there and which are not - there is no pattern I can see. I use these playlists as I'm a Les Mills Instructor. It is very frustrating.
I also have difficulty in the new version interface - I manually synche my playlists. Prior to the new version, you could tick the playlists you wanted to download to the ipod from the summary tab - I cannot see where or if this option is available anymore... Please Help Me!!!!!!

Hello garratt,
How do you have your iPod set up to sync with your iTunes library? What options to you have selected from under your iPod's Summary and Music tabs for your iPod in iTunes? Knowing this information could potentially help us narrow down the problem.
B-rock

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