Playback of purchased music skips, wrong speed, etc.

Ok, this was going to be a question, but maybe it will help diagnose future problems.
Software:
iTunes 6.0.4 (3)
FireFox 1.5.0.3 (most recently updated)
OS 10.4.6
Hardware:
PowerMac G5 dual processor 2Ghz
recently added 2GB of RAM for total of 2.5GB
Symptom:
Purchased music only would play very poorly. It was skipping and playing at the wrong speed; it seemed like it was playing too fast, but I couldn't be sure. There was also some audio noise mixed in. Music ripped from CDs (MP3s) played fine.
Solution: Rebooted system.
Suspected failure: I had been surfing (with a recently updated version of FireFox) on MySpace, reading some forums and clicking on some user icons, which would, in some cases start playing embedded music or video with audio. After surfing for a while, I noticed my background music (iTunes was playing the entire time) was sounding really terrible. I skipped to the next song, and it was fine. Soon, it was terrible again. It would only mess up on AAC files. I checked the Activity monitor and the system was mostly idle (about 90% idle) with 1.8GB of free RAM. Disk activity was low. There were no limited resources. However, the only things that have changed on this system recently are FireFox and the RAM configuration. Shutting down all other applications did NOT correct the problem. A reboot was required. I'm listening to my purchased music folder as I type this and it has yet to miss a beat. I am using FireFox and I have Mail and X11 (X-Windows) open. I can't be sure, but I believe that FireFox (OS X/FireFox bug?) grabbed resources in the audio subsystem and did not free them, but that is all speculation.
I hope this helps someone.

You are correct, sir. I was confused. I reposted my observations on the Mac side. This thread can be deleted by whomever might be able to do that.

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