Itunes 10 bug with syncing playlists

Just passing on some information here in case anyone here has encountered this.
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Itunes 10.0 and 10.1
I installed itunes 10 about a month ago loaded my library and everything was fine. Since then, I've noticed songs missing from some of my playlists. At first it was just a random song here and there and just figured I must have deleted the song from the list and forgot I did that. Then I started noticing more and more songs missing from the playlists that I know should be there. I checked my itunes library to verifiy the missing songs were on the playlist, they were. When I synced my ipod, the songs were missing on my playlist on the ipod. I could still find the song on my ipod by looking under albums or artist, but they were not syncing for the playlist. Song was checked to be synced, no errors at sync. The songs all played in itunes just fine, file corruption wasn't the cause. Only thing the songs that wouldn't sync had in common was that they were all purchased from the itunes store.
I was on itunes 10.0 at the time, so I upgraded to 10.1, same issue. Tried deleting and recreating the playlist, same issue. Deleted the songs that weren't syncing and restored them from my backup, same issue. Finally I just wiped by whole itunes library and readded all my music, then recreated the playlist, same issue.
Running out of options I decided to rollback to itunes 9.2. Had to wipe my library again, and readd everything. After reloading my library into itunes 9 I recreated my playlists and synced with my ipod. All playlists synced on my ipod correctly.

For what its worth I too am experiencing the same problem after accidentally the latest version of Itunes 10.1 whilst downloading Beatles songs to my classic 30G Ipod. I found that my synced playlists are dropping songs seemingly at random. The songs, videos and podcasts all seem to have been moved over but the playlists are screwed. In some cases I've found 4 out of six songs missing from a a playlist. I've tried restoring my Ipod, consolidating songs, recreating some of the smaller playlists from scratch under the new Itunes with similar results. I tried uninstalling Itunes and reinstalling a couple of older versions of Itunes 9 in with case I find that Itunes 10 has made the song files unreadable under 9 so I've I did a clean install of 10.1 and am still experiencing songs missing from playlists. Am at my wits end on this problem and would appreciate any suggestions to fix this problem.

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