ITunes keeps trying to sync song that isn't in library and complains.

I am unable to sync music iTunes 10.0.1.056 with with an iPhone with iOS3.something. It worked before, but now I am unable to sync any music with the iPhone. When I try to sync, I get a message that "" could not be copied to the iPhone because it could not be found. I did have a problem with that particular song, and I finally deleted it both from the iPhone and from the iTunes library. I figured I could re-add it when everything was working better.
However, iTunes refuses to get better. I don't believe that iTunes should have any knowledge of the song at this point, yet it insists on trying to sync it. The failure of this non-existent song to sync might well be aborting the sync attempt, which is way I can't sing any new music, either.
Any suggestions? I'm tearing my hair out on this one.

Could it be hidden in a playlist somewhere, as opposed to the main music library?

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