IPod Sync Question

So I have an album downloaded from the iTunes store on my iPod. A couple days ago I saw the actual cd in a store so I bought it. Now I want to replace the iTunes store downloaded songs with the songs imported from the actual CD. I think the easiest way to do it is this:
1. Delete songs off iTunes.
2. Import CD.
3. Plug in iPod and let sync.
I'd think that would do it. However, I think there is some issue where iTunes will just assume that the songs are the same since the tags are identical, etc and therefor will not replace the song with the new cd version and instead see that nothing has changed. Therefor, I'm thinking what I really have to do is this:
1. Plug in iPod and let sync.
2. Delete songs off iTunes.
3. Sync iPod so the songs are deleted off iPod.
4. Import CD
5. Sync iPod to copy new cd versions on iPod.
So will the first method described be enough or do I need to take the extra steps in method 2 in order for it to work?
I've run in to this issue before when I ripped a song off a cd, found that it had skips, cleaned cd, reripped it, and sync'd. Then I found that the song on my iPod still had skips, even though the song in my iTunes did not. But the sync function would not replace the skipped file with the new one (i think) because they are identical. In the situation presented in this thread however, one file is downloaded from iTunes store and one is from the cd so they aren't identical.
BTW, I have 120GB iPod Classic and using Windows with current verion of iTunes.

I would take route 2. A few extra steps will guarantee that the new tracks will sync over.
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