IPod refuses to play a certain song which plays fine in iTunes

20gb iPod colour refuses to play a song I downloaded from the iTunes store, "Through the Fire and Flames" by Dragonforce. It plays perfectly in iTunes, but whenever I want to play it on my iPod, it automatically skips to the next song, despite not having changed the start/end times, or having "skip when shuffling" on.
I've tried deleting the song from the iPod and restoring it by deleting it from my iTunes, updating the iPod, then restoring it to my iTunes library and updating the iPod again.
I recently updated to iTunes version 7.6.2, but the problem existed before the update and was not fixed by the update.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

See if these help.
iPod does not play content purchased from the iTMS.
About Authorization and Deauthorization.
Authorization FAQ.
Troubleshooting songs and audiobooks that won't play on the iPod.

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