60 gig ipod skips songs after 10-15 secs.

In addition to freezing video, I have a 1/2 dozen or more songs I purchased from itunes that play the first 15 seconds and skip to the next song. I also have itunes songs that don't play to the end. Does anyone have a work around for this problem?
I downgraded the firmware to 1.0 in order to try to enjoy the video aspects of the Ipod but still the video playback is terrible. 1.1 made every video jump including videos I purchased from itunes.
I hope Apple fixes this issue.
Any help is appreciated.
G4 -1.42 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

try to bring it to the apple store and tell them what u did and how uve restored it mulitple times. My friend had the same exact promblem with hers so she took it to the apple store and she got a brand new one. She says that her new 5g ipod is doing better than the old 5g ipod she had before.

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