Audio Book bookmark

I have a video iPod and my wife has a Nano - but both of us are experiencing the same issue with audio books. You can not skip ahead or fast forward on a book because it jumps right back to the very beginning of the book and when you shut off your iPod and come back to it, the book starts over. It does NOT keep the last place you left off. How do we do that. Pressing the center button to bookmark does NOT work either.

sorry had this trouble last week with my links!!
Bookmarking audio and video files in iTunes 5 and later
Apologies,
John
iMac G5 1.8GHz 20"   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   ipod 30GB Video Black v.1.2.1 Agent 18 Case iTunes 7.1 Bose Sounddock

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