Skipping songs when running

I had a problem with my second gen iPod Touch showing it had 3gb of movies when I had already cleared them from iTunes. Anyway, did a restore and that solved that problem. However, since the restore, I have a new problem: When I am running on the treadmill listening to songs, it plays a few seconds of a song, then beeps and skips to another song. This goes on non-stop. When I am just walking, it does fine. This never happened before -- until I did the restore. Any suggestions?
Pam

Never mind -- I did a search and discovered the "shake to shuffle" was magically turned on after I did the restore. Turned it off -- will see if that solved the problem.

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