Audio problem: ipod pauses abruptely

Hi folks,
my 30 Gb Video iPod drives me mad.
I'm listening to my music, while walking/on the bus/wherever, when out of the blue it pauses (with or without the lock on).
So I unlock it, press on play, lock it again and after let's say 5 seconds it pauses againg. It could last for hours, if I don't gave up and say that the music is over. Then, the next time I put on my ipod, everything seems OK.....and abruptely, the nightmare starts.
Could anyone help me?
Bos
ps: Already tried to change headphone set. Nothing changes

I am having the exact same problem as the two mentioned above. Randomly walking down the street I get pauses with or without lock on. I tried formatting and restoring to factory settings and the same still occurs. I have tried sennhiesers/sonys/bose head phones and they all pause randomly.
Is there any fix to this?
How did you go about "filing" down the headphone jack? Is this safe to do?
EDIT: the funny this is I thought this was a feature too where it pauses when I take out the headphones but that doesn't actually happen. When I take my headphones out it actually keeps going, never pauses.

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