"Last played" updating incorrectly after play on Shuffle (1G)

This may be related to "Wrong Songs Appearing as Last Played" and "More problems with the play count updating". My impression is that this symptom appeared in the last few weeks.
I load songs onto my iPod Shuffle (first generation), play some of them, then sync with iTunes on my Mac. Some songs are marked with a Last Played time of when I did the sync. I'm pretty sure they are NOT the songs that played. (And I think its less (roughly half) as many songs as were played.) Songs that WERE played still have Last Played times from weeks or months ago.

I did uninstall - reinstall itunes,
then restored my ipod shuffle (1st gen)
and I still do have the same problem. It seems that last played songs are randomly updated. Some of the songs I just listened before connecting ipod to itunes are still not on last played lists. If I play them on itunes on my laptop/pc they do appear on last played list, but not if songs are played on ipod.
So, still problems with play count updating.

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