Party Shuffle is not random

I have Itunes for Mac Version 7.4.2 (4). Party Shuffle has stopped randomizing the songs and I get whole albums instead of random songs. I have preferences set to randomize songs and have slid the slider to "less Likely".
Actually, Party Shuffle has stopped responding altogether and changing the source and Refresh does nothing.
It was working fine. This just started happening. HELP!
Gitbo

I am having the same exact problem and i have tried all of the above recommendations but everytime i try to refresh the shuffle list it goes back to the same two albums. The albums are the ones that i just recently added, a few days ago, it plays the same two albums over and over again and it just randomly started doing it, I looked at teh list one minute and it was fine the next minute it was just those two albums and i cannot figure it out. When i try to shuffle songs from the library, the same thing happens, it just plays those two albums.

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