Audiobooks not working

After powering on, I can listen to music just fine. If I then switch over to listen to a Audiobook (form Audible), the books show up just fine but will not play. When I click on the play button nothing happens. If I hit the play button a second time (which should switch it to pause), again, nothing happens - the play button is still there Finally, if I go back and try to listen to regular music, the music plays but there is no sound.
I have 1.1.3. I never tried this under 1.1.2.
Any thoughts?
Thanks

I've got exactly the same issue... had three audiobooks on my 16gb iTouch, updated iTunes yesterday, and now they have been removed from the pod following a sync. Biggest issue is I can't find any Audiobooks folder to select to sync anymore!
Whats happened? I've managed to employ a fix of creating by creating an Audiobooks music playlist.. but would prefer the previous method.
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