Unable to play "some" songs on my iPod touch

Hi there!
I've got an iPod touch 8GB with 1.1.4 firmware (with SW upgrade purchased from Apple).
I've got a MacBook running Leopard 10.52 & using iTunes 7.6.1 (9).
My problem has just started today (Monday). The iPod touch was fine on Friday.
The problem is some songs won't play! Others will play - but eg - 1 in 6 songs will play. The other 5 won't! Not good
This happens if you select by "Song" or "Artist" or even playlist.
If I press play then single tap the album art to reveal the play bar (where you can see the play time) - the playtime permentantly says "0:00".
If move to the next song - and that doesn't play, I'll move to the next. Then to the next - and so on - until a song does play. I've tried moving back to a non-playing song .. but no joy!
All the songs I've got were purchased & downloaded from iTunes. And ALL songs play OK on my MacBook through iTunes.
I have tried :
a) Resetting the iPod touch. Power key & Home pressed for 15 seconds. No joy!
b) Restoring my iPod touch twice using my backup. No joy!
c) Restoring my iPod touch and setting it up as a new iPod .. then syncing all my music over. No joy!
Apple's technical support after 1hr - couldn't solve it and suggest that I take my MacBook & my iPod touch to the Apple store in London for them to help diagnose it.
Does anyone have any other things I could try ? It would save me a journey to London. !

Okay, I think I've solved this.
Problem: Intermittent, but consistent of songs NOT playing. Attempted to play via Songs, Albums, Artists & Playlists. When the problem occurred - the playtime of effected song would permanently stay "0:00" - move to the next song. The fault had reproducebility of 5 in 6 songs not playing.
Solution. I think the problem was a corrupted playlist. This is what I did - BEFORE - solving the problem.
Restored my iPod back to factory settings.
Setup iPod as a NEW iPod.
Re-Sync copying across PlayLists from iTunes.
This did NOT resolve the fault (Tried this 3 times)
i) So, restored iPod back to factory settings and setup asa NEW iPod.
ii) NO syncronisation was performed between iTunes and iPod. (The iPod had NO music, no playlists - NOTHING)
iii) Deleted ALL playlists from iTunes. Except the Party Shuffle - which you can't delete anyway.
iv) Created a NEW playlist in iTunes.
v) Copied a range from music to the PlayList (Started off small number. 1, 5, 10, etc)
vi) In iTunes - specified that the only thing to be syncronsied was the PlayList that was newly created
vii) In iTunes - Sync to iPod.
The first time I did this - it only sync-ed 1 song. I made sure, that the first song that sync-ed was a song that couldn't play.
Guess what ? It worked!
I continued selecting ranges - and syncing. I made sure that all songs were ok - as I played the first couple of seconds of each song - every time I synced. I have 77 in total. Not much, I know
Not suggesting that you sync 10 of your songs out of 50k then re-check, then sync again etc etc.
What I mean - is try it for a small number. If it works for the first 10 of your syncs then it should work for the others.
Wonder if the playlists are stored as XML on the iPod touch. If so, wonder if it was a case of the XML not being sync-ing to it's DTD .
I dunno. At least my iPod touch is working now. Hope this helps somebody.

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