IPhone 4 playing pieces of songs out of order

My iPhone 4 is doing something that I can't even wrap my head around. When I try to add music from iTunes to my iPhone, everything seems to transfer fine. But when I go to play a song on the phone, the song will play with pieces of the song out of order. So for example, when I start the song, it will start playing the music that is 0:30 into the song, keep playing that segment for a minute or so, then play a chunk from the end of the song, then play a bit from the beginning of the song. I've tried multiple songs from multiple artists and multiple sources (songs downloaded from iTunes, ripped from CDs, etc) and I keep getting the same issue. The songs all play fine when I play from iTunes. It's just that when I play from the phone, they get all crazy.
I've updated iTunes and the iPhone, restarted the phone and my computer, tried all of those basic troubleshooting methods. Assuming you even understand the issue I'm trying to describe, does anyone have any suggestions for getting this fixed? I can't even make a guess as to what is causing this.
Thanks for any help you can give.

The same is happening to me, too. It plays 10+ seconds into the song, then it plays the beginning, then it plays back to where the interruption happened, then it plays a section later in the song, then back to the interruption, then when the song ends, it plays another part of the song that was missed.

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