My previously synched songs no longer play on my ipod

I have a few playlists on my ipod and all songs have previously worked fine. Now tho it seems that a load of the songs show up on my ipod but cannot play...they just freeze and the timer doesn't move....it then just skips onto the next available song. The tunes are in my libraray and play from the library, however, despite them showing as synched onto my ipod, they don't play from this list in itunes (or on the ipod as already mentioned). They just get an next to the name and I can't figure out how to do it, To reset my ipod, I would need to somehow save this list of songs - maybe as a playlist called 'ipod' in my real itunes library to save me having to wade through the masses of songs to pick them all out again (which took me an entire eve) and I can't work out how to do this either...it used to be so easy on the old version, but this new one where everything seems hidden just infuriates me.... please help!

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
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