Songs by artists N-Z only, are dead.

Not sure what happened here - downloaded latest iTunes, and now all songs by artists N-Z have just fallen dead; they will not play not on iTunes or on the iPod all together.
Is my only option to restore and reload? I have a 4th gen 20G iPod.
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The songs show up on both iTunes and the iPod. When I try to play them on iTunes, iTunes just stops and if you click play, nothing happens. When I try to play them on iPod, they just forward ahead to the next song, and then the next, until I'm back at the main menu.
Also, I'm not sure if it is just exclusively N-Z...I think there are some in the first half of the alpha as well.
Thanks for your quick reply!

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