Updating Music Files in iPod

I'm a musician and record my own music. I like to transfer it to my iPod so I can listen to it over and over away from the PC in order to identify any improvements to the arrangement, mix, etc.
Now, the problem I have is that in order to transfer an updated copy of a particular music file from iTunes to the iPod, I have to delete it from iTunes, update the iPod, import the song to iTunes, then update the iPod again. If I don't do this, the old version stays on the iPod whereas the new version is in iTunes.
Is there any way that the iPod can recognise that a particular file has been modified and retrieve that file from iTunes?
iPod 40GB Windows XP

Are you using autosync or manual sync mode on your iPod? If you're in manual sync, then you have to copy the song to the iPod again yourself, regardless. If it's autosync, then it will recognize changes to songs. Try changing the name of the song or the album or something like that.
Really, most people complain that iTunes updates songs on the iPod when they don't change, not the other way around.

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