More songs on iTunes playlist than on iPod - why?

Hiya everyone. Just wondered if anyone else has this problem - when I view my entire library on iTunes, it says I have a total of 2042 songs, but even after updating my iPod only has 2000. Where did my extra 42 songs go, and why haven't they been added to my iPod? I did check the whole list for missing files, and that's sorted out 4 of them, but the rest still won't transfer.
I have a 5th generation/video iPod, the 60GB model, and the latest version of iTunes.

As I said in my previous post, I got frustrated and I decided this wasn't going to mess with me any longer.
First of all, make sure you back up your whole library. I've got mine on an external disk.
Launch iTunes, connect iPod. When it gets in the list on the left, click on your pod. You'll get this summary screen in the right screen. In the Options section you'll have 4 different things. One of them being "manually manage music and videos". This one was ticked in my case. I unticked it. I got a message saying something that it would change my settings or so. I clicked yes or whatever it said. Next it told me that my iPod and library didn't match. That if I clicked continue, the contents of my iPod would be erased and replaced with the library on my computer. I clicked continue. Now it seems to be adding all the music that I bought, but still I'm about 100 songs short (but those all have the ! in front of them... whatever that means).
Oh, be prepared for it to take some time to do the erasing and reinstalling. While it erases your iPod, make sure you close down all other applications, because your puter will go in lock-down. Once it starts adding to your iPod you can do other things again.
I hope this will help someone out there!
Cheers, Sweetpea16

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