Problem with shuffling a playlist

I made a playlist of holiday music. There are 361 songs on the list. When I play this playlist in order, the iPod shows there are 361 songs on it (songs display 1 of 361, 2 of 361, etc.) But when I turn on shuffle mode, suddenly there are only 66 songs. I can switch back to "normal" order and it's back to 361. I want to play the whole list in shuffle mode. Anyone know how to solve this one?

That was it! Thank you!!!
No problem.
will it (1) only put on the iPod the music from the playlists I select, and delete everything else on the iPod
The option you are referring to allows you to select particular artists, playlists, and genres. So what ever you choose to sync for each of these categories will sync to your iPod and yes, everything else that is not selected to sync will be erased.
So if you only selected it to sync a couple of playlists and nothing from under the Artists or Genres categories, only the music in the playlists you select would sync to your iPod. Everything else would be removed. Hope that makes sense.
or (2) sync those playlists automatically and let me manually manage the rest?
You can either manually sync or automatically sync the iPod, not both. Sorry.
I'm not sure any workaround that might make what you want possible. :S If you were, it would more than likely require that you copy the lower bitrate songs from your iPod back into iTunes and then reconfigure your sync settings as desired.
B-rock

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First of all excuse me for my bad english, i'm trying
to obtain answers here, because i haven't received
help from italian forum.
I've an external USB HD where i put all my songs, the
main notebook HD is too small...
So, i charge music inside the main Itunes libray
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