Sync just over half the songs

Hi ...
Borrowed my brothers' iPod to see if I would like to have one as well. Reformatted and updated firmware. Compiled a playlist of tracks I want on there, 16.96GB in size. It's now syncing ... but only 1963 of the 3245 songs. I saw a dialog that said some of the tracks would not be put on the iPod because the iPod can't play it's format. The file stated as an example is a simple 128kbps mp3.
I really don't understand what the problem is. iTunes plays the song just fine too, although I guess that is not very relevant information.
iTunes: 5.0 (34)
iPod: 20GB gen 4, sw version 3.1
OS X: 10.4.2
Any help is appreciated.
regards,
Rob

Thanks for the reply
I put my iPhone back on the dock in order to do the restore. This time the bar that shows how full the iPhone is, seemed to be correct. So I decided no to do the Restore, but instead try to Sync. It took a while because it had to reinstall several application, but everything seems to be ok now.

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