My songs on my playlists keep deleting

My phone keeps losing my music. I have several playlists and I start to play the list and see that 20 of the 100 songs act like they haven't yet downloaded. I have even downloaded them repeatedly and they still keep disappearing. I'm ready to scream!! Please someone help! Btw. No one else in my 5 iPhone user family is having this issue. We are all using the same computer when we sync. This doesn't seem connected to when I sync my phone either.

I am having the same problem on the iPhone 4S, although it deletes from my playlists without removing the songs entirely (as far as I can tell, anyways...). I made a new playlist this afternoon, actually, and it had 61 songs in it. I locked it and ran a couple errands. When i woke it up, it acted like an internet page refreshing itself, and told me there were 50 songs in the playlist. There are definitely songs missing, so it's not just telling me a wrong number.

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