My ipod doen't like classical music!!!

i have quite a variety of music on my ipod. of all the different genres, whenever i try to play any classical albums/artists, the songs always show up as "1 of 1". this is regardless of whether i am actually playing one particular song, or an entire album. the one song will play, and then returns to the menu. i have gone under 'info' and changed the track numbers, disc numbers, i've even tried changing the genre category in an attempt to 'trick' the ipod to play complete albums/artists, and nothing works. this is the only genre this happens to. any ideas? ...anyone? thanks. (it did this with my old laptop, as well as my new imac)

When I try to sync, iTunes doesn't open automatically as it is set to do.
And when I open iTunes, I only see the icon of the IPod on the left.
The computer has always synced in the past but lately I have not been able to add any songs manually to my iPod.

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