Set on Shuffle, but I hear the same songs all the time

Recently, the iPod section in my iPhone 3GS has developed a very annoying habit: I always keep it set to shuffle all songs, and this has worked fine for years. Now, I always hear the same small selection of songs. I have a ton of music on my phone, so why has Shuffle stopped pulling from the whole music library?

I must be the only person this has happened to. Every time I start the music on my iPhone, it plays the same song, followed by the same sequence of other songs. If I fast forward until I come to some new music, the Phone reverts to the same song the next time I start the music. Is there a way to reshuffle the shuffle? It seems like it is stuck. I am at a loss as to how to attack this problem short of dumping all the music off the phone & re-adding it.

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