IPod nano skipping song

Hi all. I downloaded a song from the itunes music store and uploaded it it my nano (1gb), after about 16-19 seconds, it will skip to the next song. I have checked the settings for it on itunes, tried the 5 r's and taken it out from the library and added it again but to no prevail. The song will play all the way through on 2 computers. Any help will be greatly accecpted. Thanks
Self Built   Windows XP Pro   1GB iPod Nano, XP desktop + laptop (painfully saving for a 17" Core 2 Duo iMac)

I too am having songs getting cut off problem on a gen1 Nano. I've read through the Apple discussions and I've tried the 5R's several times, rebuilt the iTunes library, completely reformating the nano by writing zeros over the data, restoring back to an earlier version (1.1 and 1.2) and still the same thing. Digging into this further, I find the same songs do not cut off on my G2 20gig iPod, only on the Nano. I only started noticing this problem when I updated to iTunes 7 and the iPod updates that went with it- it doesn't mean the problem wasn't happening earlier, just that I wasn't noticing it.
Digging still further, I find only a few songs have this problem (I've found 7 out of out >4,200) and that they seem to match up. Song A stops ~30 sec before the end and song B stops ~30 sec from the beginning. Song C stops ~54 sec from the end and song D stops ~54 sec from the beginning. Further, these 7 songs were all downloaded from iTMS between 9/17/05 and 12/11/05 (I bought a total of 30 songs during that period, but have only found 7 that are afflicted so far).
Lastly, if I burn those songs to disk as an MP3 and reimport them, the songs play in their entirety. Sadly no solutions here, just observations.

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