Complete Harry Potter Audiobook Skips ahead

I am experiencing a problem with The Complete Harry Potter on my 40 GB 3rd Generation iPod. I downloaded the Complete Harry Potter (6 books) from the iTunes music store and it plays without any problems on my iMac G4 with iTunes 6.0.x (the audiobook was downloaded after updating to iTunes 6).
When I attempt to play any of the books on my iPod, the "song" or track plays fine for approximately 30 minutes, but then skips ahead to the next track (i.e. an hour into Book One, Part One, it skips ahead to Part Two, completely ignoring the remaining 1 hour and 30 minutes of Part One). This has happened on almost every track in three of the six books (haven't tried the other three).
Any thoughts/fixes/etc. would be appreciated.

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