Music and podcasts are grey on my itouch

I am really frustrated with this. Ever since I upgraded to the new version of iOS6 I've been having issues. I can see all of my songs and podcasts on my iTouch but a good bit of them are gray and I cannot play them. They seem to appear fine in iTunes. I have googled this scenario and I have read some suggestions and tried most of them. Example: uninstall and reinstall iTunes, set up device to sync manually, set device to manage songs and playlist manually and nothing seems to work. Please help.....I am beginning to regret upgrading to an iTouch. I should have stayed with my good old classic!!!
Any help is appreciative!!!!!

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and podcastsd and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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