Can't play songs on iPhone

I can play most of my songs on the iPhone, but there are certain ones that will not. It will show the album art work, go through the motions of playing, but there is no sound and then it will skip to the next song after about 5 seconds. These same songs play perfectly fine on itunes. I've removed song from itunes and added again, synched, same thing. Looking through previous discussions, it was recommended to reset the iPhone (hold down top button and circular button until I see the Apple symbol), but that has been done multiple times to no avail.
I was previously using a computer with Windows XP(no problems), but now am using one with Vista. Not sure if the OS is the issue as I would be having problems with more than just a handful of songs. The only common denominator is that they were obtained through Limewire, but all other similar files play fine. Also, all the songs I cannot play have been able to play fine on the iPhone until recently when I noticed it.
Any suggestions???

Welcome to the forums.
Easiest way to solve this is to convert the troublesome songs to AAC -- select them all in iTunes, right click, and choose "Convert to AAC". Then sync only these songs (the AAC ones).

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