Missing songs in "Random play all&qu

I have a Creative Zen (8GB) with the latest firmware and I just did a fresh reformat, uploaded 566 songs using Winamp (which I can verify in Winamp, 566 mp3s ARE on the player), and if I select random play all on the player it only plays 524 of them. I can put a playlist on the player which contains all 566 songs and they all play fine, but for some reason the random play all button won't load all the songs on the player. Any thoughts? (And no, "don't use winamp" isn't an acceptable answer, thanks).

I have one more problem now. Apparently my Zen 8GB hates certain characters in ID3 tags and replaces them with more friendly characters when files are transferred to it. This causes massi've problems because any playlists that referenced the songs with invalid letters in the tags will no longer contain those songs, and when syncing it causes problems because songs with different tags are obviously seen as different songs (even though they are the same song, one with the tags mangled).
Does anyone know of some software that can remove all the unsupported characters from the ID3 tags in my media library? That would really make life a lot easier, thanks.

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