Some songs missing....weird.....

i have a 60gb ipod and a 40gb ipod, and when i update them both, the amount of songs that appear in both of them is less than the number of songs in the library. i have selected update all songs under the music tab, but it always comes up 20 or so songs, short.
any ideas?
thanks.

Hi
I had a similar problem and I was given an answer that worked for me here --> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=738663&tstart=0
Might be worth a try?

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