Perfect in iTunes, bad on iPod

This *****. I purchased some music from iTunes, which I will never do again, and it plays fine in iTunes, then when I put it on iPod, it won't play full songs. Some songs skip to the next song after only 2 minutes of playing. There was an error while downloading, so I just refreshed those songs that had the error, and they downloaded fine. Now the songs that are skipping on the iPod aren't even the ones that are having the problem.
I called apple and of course my warranty went out 21 days ago so they tell me they won't help me unless I pay 30 bux but they did give me 50 different troubleshooting pages and I went through all of them, resetting restoring and everything and they still skip over songs, anybody heard of this? Please don't reply with an apple troubleshooting page as I've already done all of them.

Page 40, http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPod_touch_3.1_UserGuide.pdf
"Important: If you delete an item from iTunes, it will also be deleted from iPod touch the next time you sync."

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