80Gb iPod skips to next audiobook

This problem has to be one of the most aggravating bugs in a product I've ever dealt with and I've been living with this since day one.
I use my iPod to listen to books on my way to/from work. Most audiobooks I have will initially pick up where I last left off, but before it starts to actually play any audio, it will suddenly skip to the next "file". I use the word "file" because some books are all one big file that may be several hours long, and others may be individual chapters and still others may be groups of chapters. When this happens, I have to go up a menu, select the book I was listening to and hit play. This starts the book over and I have to fast forward to the point where I left off.
This can happen whether I listen to it on the way to work and pause it while I go to work then 9 hours later hit play to listen on the way home, or if I hit pause to fill up the gas tank and then get back in a few minutes later. It even happens if I hit pause for just a minute or so and come back to it.
But it never happens all the time. It's intermittent, so I never know when I'm going to be driven up this particular wall! According to the Apple website, my iPod's still under warranty, but I'm not eligible to call and talk with anyone about it, and Apple doesn't seem to have an ability to email their support to ask them a question so there seems to be no way for Apple to tell me if they're aware of the bug and are working on a fix!!!
I did restored the iPod which didn't help and I'm on software version 1.3 on the iPod.
Before I throw this thing against a wall, can someone offer me some help?
Thanks.
Robert

Thanks for the feedback, but this didn't solve my issue. First, I unsync'd all but 9 of my books (they happened to be similar topics) and my iPod skipped. Then I unsync'd 7 of those, leaving me with only 2 books on my iPod. The first one didn't skip at all ... feeling pretty good ... but alas, the second book has "skipped".
Now when I say skip, how can the second book of 2 actually skip to the next book like my original post? Well, it didn't actually skip, it just jumped to the main menu. Everything else from my original post is exactly the same, just that since there wasn't another book in line to skip to, it just stopped playing and jumped to the main menu.
To be clear also, it sounds like you may be telling me to create a playlist of a few songs. I didn't create a playlist, I just unsync'd all but two of my books and am playing them from the "audiobooks" folder. Do you feel like I need to actaully create a playlist (assuming I'm understanding you properly)?
Thanks again.

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