IPod no longer plays my purchase music???

Hi everyone,
I've recently moved my music collection to a different computer and everything seems fine except purchased songs etc won't play on my iPod. They transfer over fine but when it goes to play anything purchased it skips to the next track. I've tried all that the apple site recommends however it's final option is no good to me, it said to restore my collection from a recent backup when that is exactly what got me into this mess.
I don't know what to do next, updating and restoring my ipod seems to do nothing.
Any ideas anyone?
Alienware   Windows XP   wish it were a Mac...

Just as a matter of interest, do you let the iPod go into "deep sleep" (where you don't use it for more than 36 hours)? There seems to be some indication that this causes purchased music not to play.
There's one other thing.
Enable the iPod for disk use. See How to enable disk use.
Go to "my computer" and from the tools menu/folder options/view tab, enable "show hidden files and folders" in the advanced settings pane. Open the iPod in "my computer". Look for a file called "iEKinfo". Is it there? If so, make a copy of this file and save it somewhere easy to find (the desktop for instance). Do this also with the "iTunes DB" file. Don't worry if you can't see these files.
Create a new administrator account. Log out of the current account and log in to the new one. Then restore the iPod to factory settings.
Open iTunes, connect the iPod and set the transfer preferences to manual transfer. Then download the free single of the week from the iTunes Music Store. Verify that song plays in iTunes.
Now, drag this song only to the iPod, and eject the iPod from iTunes and disconnect it from the computer.
Does the song play on the iPod ok? If so, log out of the new user account and log back in to your normal one (the one you have issues with) and reconnect the iPod to the computer. Keep manual transfer selected for the moment. Drag some of the older purchased music (the ones that wouldn't play before) to the iPod.
Eject the iPod and disconnect it. Do those songs now play ok?
If not, first try this step.
Delete the SC Info.sidb file. Open iTunes again.
Now transfer some of the affected music to the iPod again. Does it play ok?
If not, do this.
Recreate your iTunes library.
Now, would you please send some info about this issue to [email protected]
Include the following info.
Did any of the steps resolve your issue, if so which one?
Which model iPod are you using?
What computer OS are you using?
Was the iEKinfo file present on the iPod at the start of troubleshooting?
If not, was it there after any of the above steps, if so, which one?
Include your account name (not your password) you use for the iTunes Music Store.

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