Songs come and go

Hi,
I have my ipod for about three months now, and had no major complaints so far, but one... I never managed to get ALL my songs on my iPod. I still have 12GB left on my iPod, so that's not the problem, but my iTunes contains 2113 songs & movies, while my iPod only has 2049 songs & movies on it. None of the songs in my library are said to be missing. That's another thing, nothing to do with my iPod, but I work with iTunes 6.0.5.20 and I can't update to iTunes 7, nor can I update my quicktime. What is wrong here??
And another thin, that may be connected to the mysterious loss of songs in transfer to my iPod is that I constantly have to relocate my mp3's. They keep going astray, allthough I never move them.
Can anyone help me with one of these problems, it would be most kind.
Thank you
5th generation iPod video 30Gb   Windows XP Pro   iTunes 6.0.5.20

restoring... done.
I see that you run on a winXP system, well... I tried installing iTunes 7. The installer said that it didn't have enough acces to the following key:
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\Software\Classes\QuickTimePlayerLib.QuickTimePlayerApp\CLSID
I know I accidently removed a quicktime key with hijack this, but would you be so kind as to post your key please?
The only entry I have in that directory is
(default) REG_SZ {D97F7D8D-7610-4271-82C8-61A91BD796D1}
It takes about 2 minutes to do, and it would really, really, really help me out a lot! thanks

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