Party Shuffle not recognizing songs

When using my Party Shuffle, I noticed that not all the songs from the album selected were playing. I set up a sample album to see what was going on. On putting in the songs that were not playing, I got the message that "The playlist 'Trial' does not contain any songs playable by Party Shuffle." All the songs are checked to play, so this is not the issue.
Upon further testing, there is no rhyme or reason to which songs Party Shuffle will recognize and which ones it doesn't. For example, I select all of Album A (an album I downloaded) to put in my Trial album, and it will recognize all the songs EXCEPT for 2. I put in Album B instead (another album I downloaded), and it ONLY recognizes 4 songs from this one.
This holds true for albums that I downloaded as MP3 or AAC. These songs that won't play in the Party Shuffle play just fine if I use the shuffle within the Trail Album.
The only possible solution I can think of is re-downloading my music-not something I have tried as I really don't want to do this...
Anyone have any suggestions??
Thanks.
McWaffle
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I'm talking about shuffle on the iPod. I have the songs in my Christmas playlist deselected so that they don't play when I shuffle songs in my iPod - I thought. But since the last update, they seem to play anyhow.
So I guess what I'm saying is that I'd like to shuffle the songs within my Xmas Playlist, but when I set the iPod's settings to SHUFFLE/SONGS, it will shuffle them from the list once I start it playing, but then it will onlys shuffle SOME of them, not all. I don't get it. Do I have to play them in order to hear all 296 items in the list? Because it only plays 92 at a time. Then when it plays songs from one album too many times, I go and choose another song and it shuffles again from 91, 92 or 93 songs, it seems kind of random. So it is shuffling within the list, but it is only shuffling 1/3 of the songs, and not playing the rest at all.

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