The music app on my iPhone says it's playing a different song than what is actually playing. What's going on here?

I have a few playlists on my iPhone, and when I went into my music app today to listen to them, some tracks didn't play. Others did--but the track that played was NOT the track that was displayed in "Now Playing." I tried to re-sync to resolve the issue, but I'm having the same problem. Any suggestions?

I didn't try reset or restore (resets are easy enough, but restores tend to be kind of extreme solutions for something like this), but I did go back into iTunes, uncheck the "Music" box, and re-sync. Then I checked it again and synced. I'm guessing that a previous wi-fi sync got interrupted, and as a result, the associations between the song information (what displays) and the actual file got out-of-whack somehow.
As near as I can tell, the problem is fixed...
T

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