The strange case of the downloaded track...

Hi there.
Strange stuff coming up. I've bought some tracks from iTunes, but for just three of them I got some problems. After I've put'em down into my iPod, they start playing, but after a few seconds they suddenly stuck and music skips to the next track. The weird is that on my iTunes they perfectly play and I did a CD from them, too...
I think the problem is in the tracks themselves and not on my iPod (I love it and I'd have the same c**p for the other 500 tracks, I suppose...). Even the online support couldn't help me...
Things I've already done:
1) RESET and REBOOT
2) Downloaded new firmware 1.2
3) Re-organized my iTunes library
By the way, I try to put in my iPod the same track in another audio format and of course it works.
Does anyone of you meet the same problems?
How can I convert AAC audio format protected (as I've bought from iTunes) in other different ones?
Help me, please!
Thanks for your kindness and forgive my lenght of writing...
Windows XP

To your first question about truncated tracks, I am not sure if this is the same issue but here is a recent set of posts on this that might help...
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2925367
How can I convert AAC audio format protected (as I've bought from iTunes) in other different ones?
One way to do it, which also strips away any sort of restrictions and protections on the tracks, is to simply burn them to an Audio CD (not an MP3 or data CD) then re-import them. You can now do anything you want with the re-imported versions.
Patrick

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