3 Main Issues with my 80gb Classic

I recently purchased a new 80gb iPod Classic to replace my 40gb 4G iPod for a trip I'm on over thanksgiving. Everything synced on it and I saw no issues with it when I was at home, until I was listening to it on the airplane.
First I was listening to Meteora by Linkin Park and certain tracks that I wanted to listen to would not play all and they would just skip to the next track. I've also tried to listen to the track through a playlist that I had put it on but it did the same thing! Now the track plays just fine in iTunes and on my 2G Shuffle and on my 4G iPod, but it just refuses to play on the classic. I've tried resetting it and doing what I can being away from my computer. I don't know if other tracks on the iPod are doing the same thing, I hope they aren't.
Second is an issue I think just about everyone is having and that is with Cover Flow. I would like to use this feature on the Classic but I have no clue how it organizes albums. It seems that it organizes by Album and artist instead of Album and Album artist. If this is normal behavior I would like to know and if there's any detail in the album sorting list that I could do to make it better organized.
Third is problem of using the search feature for music. For instance I can enter "link" and it'll show that I have 5 albums for Linkin Park. In that sense it works just fine but when I click on it is when the problem starts. Instead of showing me the artist or song with that in the field, it loads up all 5,000+ tracks that are on my iPod starting with Blindside when they have nothing to do with "link".
Those are my main 3 issues that I'm having with my Classic and I would like to get them resolved online before I go to the Apple Store when I get home from vacation. It's only a week old so I know I shouldn't have any problems with them at the store, I just want to try to avoid long lines and hassle. I also have minor issues with not all the album art loading up on the iPod from iTunes but I'm sure that's an easy fix.
Also I have my iPod syncing with my PC which is running WinXP Home SP2 and the most current version of iTunes. I just have it set up on that since the HDD is much larger then my PowerBook. Also I plan on getting an iMac in Dec/Jan.
Thanks for the tips

KnowYourLimits wrote:
RE: "just went and converted the song..." what format were you using when it didn't work, and what format did you convert it to?
Believe it or not, all the tracks were mp3 files at 128k and only two of the tracks on the entire album wouldn't play. So all I did was convert the two songs into mp3 at 192k and they play just fine. Really it doesn't make any sense at all on what the issue was and how it was resolved. Basically it wouldn't play an mp3 so I made a new mp3 of the same file.
update
Well most of my issues have been resolved thanks to the new firmware except for the Cover Flow problem. I know I don't have to use that feature I would just like to use it and having it organize my albums correctly would be a plus.
On a side note I do have to complain about the clicking thing they made now when you change volume or tracks or just for touching the wheel in general. I wouldn't mind it if I could just have it on the iPod speaker only, but the fact they make you do both is what's annoying. So for once I actually have it turned off and feels weird to use it without the clicking.

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