Google's AdSense Preview Tool Not Showing All Ads?

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 A WebmasterWorld thread reports that Google's AdSense Preview Tool does not show all the live ads in the system. For example, this user said he saw an ad on his site. He then went to the AdSense preview tool and the ad was not there. Here is how the AdSense publisher described the problem: I've noticed this for months now, but, ...