Beginning of song plays twice

I have seceral songs that play the first few seconds, and then start over and play the entire song. To make this as clear as possible: It is like I started playing the song, stopped it, went back to the beginning and played the song.
Does anyone have any idea what could cause this problem?

Just in case this gets a look -- I'll jot down what I am going to try:
Todays experiment -- backup the iTunes on the Windows machine and do a restore to a Mac Book Pro to see if that solves the problem. Maybe there is some kind of corruption in the database or some other file that this will repair.

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The iPod seems to fail to play all of the occasional track that iTunes, and indeed other PMPs, are happy to play. There is probably some minor technical error in the internal structure of the file which is normally ignored by other playback software but causes the Classic to bail out.
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Does anyone know how to keep track of which song played last time before itunes was closed? I have a big list of songs in my playlist and I play it everyday while I'm working. If I shut down my computer and start it again the next day, I have to manually look for the song I played the previous evening. Is there a way where it will keep track of the last song and play it from that?
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From iTunes, use my answer to Chris to add the Last Played column, sort by that and select the song at the top of the list. That is your most recently played song. If you hit the >> or Next button you will then go to the next song in the randomly-sorted list.
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!http://home.earthlink.net/~terrancehicks/images/Harddrive_filepic-.jpeg!
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!http://home.earthlink.net/~terrancehicks/images/CorruptiPod_filepic-.jpeg!
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I see two possibilities. The first is that your problem isn't the same as mine. The second is that your method of playing a song from your iPod with iTunes on your computer isn't the same as mine.
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