Not all songs / artists appearing

I just manually transferred songs from my Mac (OS X 10.5.8) onto my Blackberry, with 16GB media card. My songs are sorted into artist / album folders (done automatically by iTunes). Most appear fine, but some songs and some entire artists do not appear at all in the BB.
I've tried a battery pull / reboot.
Other forums say to delete the BBThumbs.dat file, to get it to remake this. I've selected the SHOW HIDDEN FILES option, and looked at these BBThumbs.dat files. The problem is that when I look in the folders that are not appearing, there is NO BBThumbs.dat file (which presumably is why that folder of songs is not appearing!).
How to I get it to make this file and show these songs?
thanks.

There are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song has no album name associated with it or 2) the song is marked as part of a compilation.
If tracks are missing an Album name in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in. The no album one is a bit quirky as the songs will appear under certain circumstances (for instance I read somewhere that if you have at least two tracks with different album names the rest will appear), however the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous to all the blanks in place of a title. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod
Also if the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. Setting "Compilations" on your iPod main menu prevents you getting lots of single artist entries when you load an album by various artists.

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Every time a new version of iTunes comes out, I send feedback to Apple regarding this issue. As expected, Apple ignores their feedback, and from what I can tell they ignore the community forums as well, and they have yet to address the issue in any way, or even contact me about it.
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