IPhone 3G Starts Playing Music In Car Then Stops

Hey everyone,
I have a new problem with my iPhone 3G. You see, when I used to have the original iPhone, it used to work fine with my car's headunit: http://mobile.jensen.com/jensen/JensenProductDetail.do?ACTIONTYPE_ID=ACTION_TYPE_PRODUCT_DETAIL&ACTION_CATEGORY_ID=STR_CATEGORY_MOBILEMULTIME DIA&ACTION_PRODUCTID=VM9412
That headunit has a cable that would plug into the iPhone and then the iPhone's playlists would show up on the touchscreen and allow me to control it from there. It was very cool and easy. Music would play continuously without a problem.
Fast forward to recently, when I got the iPhone 3G. Everything is fine, I plug in the iPhone to the cable, it says it can't charge it like it could with the old one (that's fine, I guess... still blows), but here's the thing - the playlists will show up, I can select a song, the song would start playing and then it would just stop randomly and the headunit's screen would show "Reading..." When I checked the iPhone after this happened, it seemed like it just reset the connection for no reason: the little "play" symbol would be gone from the top bar.
This would be totally random too, sometimes I would be lucky and it would play a couple of songs before this would happen. Disconnecting and connecting it again would get rid of the "Reading..." and would bring everything back, but the same problem would just happen a few minutes later. THIS NEVER HAPPENED WITH THE OLD ONE. I don't know if it's the 2.0 software (yes, I have the latest software on mine) or if it's the new hardware or what, but it's incredibly frustrating. I've tried a variety of things, including having Airplane Mode on and off, ignoring the Airplane Mode dialog popup entirely, etc... but still no luck. Also, this is only a problem in the car, when I connect it to a sound dock I have at home, I don't get this problem.
Please tell me what I can do! Thanks.
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I do not believe your problem relates to the car or the charger at all. It is a problem with the iPhone. I have the same problem when I take my iPhone along for a run. I'm noting that it happens when I go for a run because this problem occurs after I've been listening for about an hour. Just as in your case my phone will start and stop randomly. It will also play a song for three seconds and then skip to the next song. Also, in my case, when this happens I can't use the phone. If I try and dial someone it'll start the call and then immediately hang up.
I called Apple support and they gave me the line that this is totally new, never happened to anyone before, etc. Then they told me to reboot the iPhone (holding the button on top and the wake-up button at same time for 15 seconds). They said if that doesn't work I should try a restore. Anyway, rebooting works, but after another hour or so of nonstop listening the problem starts up again. I called Apple again and after 1.5 hours on the phone (hold time, explain problem from scratch, repeat old suggestions, getting transferred, hold again, explain problem again from scratch, same old suggestions) they told me it must be a problem with my corrupted data because no one else has reported this problem. They said there is nothing more they can do.
BTW, I have spoken to two other people in my building who are having the same problem. They too were told that support told them they were the only people having this problem.

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