Ipod re-syncs same songs everytime

My itunes somehow got damaged and rebuild itself a few weeks ago. When it finished I had to reset some things with the way itunes displays and plays my music. Also somehow it duplicated a couple of my playlists. I deleted the duplicated playlists and reset all the diplays back. Now it works fine.
The first time I synced my 160g classic is seemed to sync fine. The second time it came up with notice that it couldn't sync to the ipod and I had to reload the software and reset the ipod. I did this and it reloaded my 16,000+ music library. (I have the latest itunes and ipod software)
Now everytime I sync the ipod it reloads the same 60 songs everytime! These songs play fine in itunes and on the ipod. Anybody have a suggestion on how to stop these songs from reloading to the ipod everytime it syncs?

Update- I found that if I go in and change something in the song info (genre) then the songs reload once and then stop the constant reloading. So I guess something about the info on these songs got wacky when my itunes library rebuild.
Thanks
Don

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