Maybe this'll help, maybe not. I tested this today....
I downloaded some independent mp3's last night and imported them into MC I listened to the album last night after importing it.
I then sync'd the album to my ipod.
I listened to most of it again today on the ipod.
Tonight I looked at the album in MC. It showed 1 in each of the "Number Plays" fields.
I then sync'd the ipod with MC.
I then checked the album again and all the songs I heard today updated correctly to a "number plays" of 2.
Good so far.
Anyway, while the playcounts are updating correctly, I have invalid information in the "Last Played". I've pasted the results below.
Keep in mind that this cd didn't exist in my library until about 20 hours ago. Every song has been listened to within the last 19 hours.
Some of the songs were listened to this morning, and some of the songs were listened to about two hours ago.
Here's the results of my "last played", as showing currently, copy/pasted directly from my view scheme:
Number Plays Last Played
1 5.3 years ago
1 5.3 years ago
1 5.3 years ago
1 2.8 days ago
1 2.8 days ago
2 2.4 days ago
1 2.4 days ago
1 42.8 hours ago
1 30.0 hours ago
2 28.5 hours ago
1 26.0 hours ago
1 26.0 hours ago
2 25.9 hours ago
1 25.3 hours ago
1 21:37:09 ago
1 11:37:24 ago
At this point, I checked on Jim's recommendation. Turns out the date on my ipod is set to 25 Mar 2000. Apparently reset one of the few times my battery has gone completely dead on the ipod.
So, at this point, I'm willing to believe the 5.3 years ago came from the ipod and the 11:37:24 and 21:37:09 came from songs I listened to via MC.
I have no idea how it got 2.4 and 2.8 days ago, since the song didn't exist in the library that long ago and the ipod was 5 years ago.....?
Finally, I set the ipod to the correct current date.
Played 2 of the songs again in their entirety.
Synced again with MC, and now the "last played" shows 7:23 ago.
I'd have to say you either have a date problem on the portable. If that is correct, then maybe the ipod update changed something.