ITunes won't sync purchased tracks to mobile devices

...When I sync playlists from my mac mini to my new iPhone 5, the playlist lists all songs in that playlist but will not play (skips) all purchased and downloaded tracks in the playlist and only plays tracks I copied off cd's.  How can I fix this?
On my iPad, the playlists are shown as icons with the number of songs and '0' minutes of time, and no songs are listed when I click on an icon.  Haywire with iTunes!  Everything is normal on the Mac mini.

Managed to find a workaround on this one.
Signed out of my iTunes account in settings on my iPhone, then synced again and everything (including purchases) transferred across. Then signed back in.
Happy days!

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