ITouch Doesn't Play Purchased Content

The very first time I synced my iPod Touch with my computer, I got this error when trying to play a video on it: "This movie could noe be played." I also experienced that purchased music would not play either. When I clicked on the purchased music file, it would just stay at the beginning of the song. If i moved the song slider to the middle of the song and pressed play, the play button would recognize that I pressed it, but the symbol would stay the same and the music still wouldn't play. My other music files that I retrieved off of CDs would play though. What I did to fix it, which I think was just luck, was to sync it again. I don't know what was wrong, or why it got fixed either. Now it happened again, for the second time, and when I tried syncing it again, it stayed the same and the problem persisted. I was on 1.1.2 the first time, and now I am on 1.1.4

I simply went to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset all settings, and the problem was solved. I'm sorry that I didn't try that before posting this, because I could have saved myself the time to type this.

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