Itunes has all the songs... ipod a few! what??

Ipod seems to have lost many songs. I had them in the beginning... but now all the songs by certain artists are missing! They all exist on itunes but when Ipod updates it wont download them.... Is there something I can do? help!
Thanks in advance!
Greg

hi ,
I have the same problem : 5OO songs on the ipod whereas 1500 are on itunes .
it seems to me it happened after downloading itunes 5 ; the problem remains with itunes 6, even though i've restaured the ipod !!!
has anyone got the solution ?
thanks,
patrick

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