Ringtones not syncing

I've actually never had this problem before, but now I can't seem to get all of my ringtones to sync up to my iPhone 5c.
I have the latest version of iTunes (11.3) and the latest iOS (7.1.2), and all of my clips are under 30 seconds. I thought maybe there was a cap on how many ringtones I could have on my phone at one time, so I deleted a few, bringing my number down to 12 from 14. This didn't work, obviously. It will only sync 7 out of 12 songs, and I'm not sure why. All of the songs are AAC format, under 30 seconds, and are obviously recognized as ringtones by iTunes, so I'm sort of at a loss.
There are pictures below to demonstrate what I mean.I've been trying repeatedly to get these tones to sync for about two hours now and I'm getting really frustrated. Hopefully someone can help me out.

Did you sync the podcast and ringtones to your iphone?
In the reviews in the itunes store, there are suggestions on how to make it work.

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