Why can't my Ipod store as many songs as before?

My 2Gig Ipod used to store about 490 songs. Now I can only sync 289 songs and have to do it manually. I've restored several times. Any idea what's happening?

I just have one video: JakJak Attack and one album artwork, the rest is music.
I looked thru one song on each album and they were all AAC. Now I do have this problem that I addressed to MacMuse. I didn't want to touch them until I found a way to convert them from this code but when I looked at random songs, they are in WAV. Any ideas on the below question? then I can convert them to AAC.
Hi Macmuse-
I just did a trick of yours from a posting on feb 7 2005 Re: Computer Crashed
Basically, Option 2 of the transferring of ipod music to itunes instructions... hidden files and stuff like that. This worked for me, sort of..
I got about half the files like normal- name, artist, album- but the other half of the songs came through as 4 letter words such as JKJU & FVEA. They ARE songs, they play when clicked, but I have no idea which ones! They are all jst in random order. There are like 1000 of these. Any ideas about how to remedy this?
THANKS!

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