Shuffle, damn it!

I love my iPod, it is the reason I bought an Apple iMac (24" too) to replace our home/family computer. It is fantastic, the quality of the audio, the simplicity of the controls, the video quality, the capacity of it (80gb is just enough atm).

But,......

It has one major problem, the shuffle feature. At current count, i have exactly 4628 songs on my iPod, now taking a "very" rough average of 4 minutes per song, that totals 18,512 minutes of music, or a tad under 2 weeks of non-stop rocking. I have about 2.5 hours of commute time each day and also listen to it at work, when i am trying to focus on some coding problem, so lets call it 5 hours a day. 5 hours out of 300 hours of music, 5 days a week, means that in 12 working weeks I can listen to my entire music collection back to front.

How is it then, that when I hit shuffle, i hear the same stuff almost every day, guaranteed?
I'll admit that there are a few songs on there a couple of times, but the songs I'm hearing are not those ones, they are the crap annoying songs, that I ALWAYS skip over. The shuffle feature should be smarter than me. If I skip a song more than twice, don't play it again! If a song has been played in the last week, don't play it again. If a song has a low or very low rating, only play it like once a year.

In so many ways, my iPod has made my day-to-day life better, but in a small way it falls short of the utopian music device.