Playlist/Album not playing

I created a playlist to contain an entire album. No matter what I try (changing the settings in 'get into) my iPod will play only one song and stop. It won't play the album through.
This does not happen in iTunes, btw - when I am using the playlist from my iPod and playing through iTunes, the album plays fine.
This is driving me nuts.
I have experienced numerous odd bugs since upgrading my iTunes/iPod and I REALLLLLLY wish that Apple would allow for reloading of old software as I didn't have this problem before I upgraded, and this includes nuking and reloading my iPod several times.

anybody?

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Message was edited by: Carnatus

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