[HELP] Garbled music playback

I have music loaded onto my iPhone 3G that I also use as an iPod. I was listening to music yesterday and it seemed fine.
Today it is playing back garbled. You can make out the song, but the playback has a lot of odd tones and just sounds sort of mixed up and flattened out.
I've not done anything significant with the phone in the interim. It was not hooked up to a PC. I used to to make calls, surfed a bit with Safari, and plugged it in overnight to charge it up.
Today when I try to play, it is messed up. I tried turning it off and restarting it from scratch, but the problem persists.
Any idea what might be wrong and what sort of corrective action I can take?
Scott

instead of restarting the phone, which does nothing, try resetting it by pressing and holding the sleep and home buttons for about 10 seconds until you see an apple. Ignore the slider. Then retry.
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