Songs that just won't transfer right

Hi,
I am an experienced computer user and I am having severe problems adding certain songs to my iPod mini. I just bought this new album from iTunes and I tried to add it to my iPod... it has 17 songs in that album but only something like 4-5 transferred right. It plays song 1, which was perfect... then it tried to play 2... didn't work, then 3, and 4 was fine... then 5 didn't go... then 6 failed... so it goes on like that until the last song... which I think didn't even finish playing, can't remember. Here's what I have done:
1) Check for space: it did have more than 100MB free... but it doesn't matter since I did the following and made it the only album on the thing (leaving 3.68 GB free) and it still does EXACTLY the same thing (note: album is 74 MB total).
2) Made sure that they played properly. I did this in two ways, I played it in iTunes before transfer, it worked fine. I then played it on the iPod using iTunes after I transferred it over, from the expanded iPod selection on the left column and it worked fine there... but after I unplugged it... the iPod on its own accord won't play it.
3) I made sure that I am authorized to play it. This is self explanatory since some songs in the album did play, only selected many didn't play.
4) I updated my iPod to the newest version and installed the newest iTunes... but that didn't do anything, same exact thing (even the same songs were not playing).
5) I reset the iPod: I reseted it, rebooted it, and everything... still the same thing.
6) I changed the mode of it: I did manual and automatic sync... both didn't help.
I checked many forums. And no, I only have one iPod and this thing has always worked up to this point. I don't have the network drive mapping problem either since none of the symptoms matched exactly... plus I would know since I am heavily monitoring my network and it's not a problem and I haven't changed my samba drive's settings either. So if anyone can shed light on this I'd greatly appreciate it.
-Jasper
Windows XP Pro

Connect the phone to iTunes on your computer. Click on its name in iTunes, then click on Music at the top of the screen. Uncheck syncing, then sync the phone. Reboot the phone by holding HOME and SLEEP at the same time until an Apple logo appears. Check the phone. Is the music gone (with "Show all music" turned off)? Now go back to iTunes, click on Music again, and check just the music you want on the phone.

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