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UPDATE: I uninstalled and reinstalled itunes. I still got a bunch of different error messages whilte trying to sync but now when I click on "On this iPod" it says there are 407 songs on it. But when I look at the song list on the actual iPod, there's only 101 songs.
I use my iPod for work and REALLY need this to work. No one has any ideas?

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