Ipod not skipping songs in shuffle

I seem to have the opposite problem as most in the shuffle mode. I have marked all of my holiday songs to skip in shuffle mode, multiple times now, but a few songs continue to play when I hit Shuffle. Any ideas?

You haven't actually set some songs to skip when shuffling
You have two copies of a song that plays in shuffle mode - one copy set to skip when shuffling, and the other one is not and this one therefore plays in shuffle mode
You have set skip when shuffling while the iPod is connected to iTunes, and that change to skip has not been synchronised with the iPod
If a song plays in shuffle mode when you think it should not do so, check the setting for the song in your iTunes Library to make sure it's the way you want. Make sure you select just the one song, do not check multiple items while trying to resolve this issue.

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