Purchasing songs for 2 Ipods

Hi, I purchased 2 Ipod shuffles for my kids. I set up and registered each one. I downloaded a couple of songs from Itunes and created a playlist for one of the kids. My second kid wanted the same songs on his Ipod so I assumed I would need to download them again, which I did while his Ipod was connected. Now I have two copies of each song in my Music list but I can only I can only sync the songs to the first Ipod. When I try to sync to the second Ipod, it doesn't work. I paid for two copies of each song, I should be able to download a version to each Ipod...yes?? Thanks

I'm having similiar problems and was wondering if you could help me. Last year my oldest daughter got an iPod so we got my younger one this year since we already have so many songs in iTunes and they like the same songs. So I figured this would be the best way to go. My problem is most of the songs are transfering to my newer iPod even though they are showing up under my purchased items. I'm also having some songs not even showing up that they've been purchased or downloaded the ones I purchased on Christmas Eve isn't even showing up in my purchased items even though I received my bill from iTunes. Why would this be?

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I've had this symptom before on my iPod, and have solved it by taking rather drastic action. Please pay close attention to the advice I will give now and proceed only if you understand the implications.
I firmly believe that many iPods suffer from disk fragmentation and errors which cause this problem. Syncing iPods with continually changing content in one's iTunes library is not a good thing in the interest of keeping an iPod healthy, even though it's extremely handy. Also, even though the process of restoring an iPod is usually considered a last-resort option, it actually does nothing to check for or correct possible disk problems on an iPod, whereas the procedure I describe below does.
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