IPhone - iPod song freeze

Hey guys,
Wondering if you guys could help out... When im listening to music on my iphone on the ipod mode... Something after 5 songs in, at the end of the 5th track it just freezes. I have to go back to back to the ipod mode and re shuffle another song... Then again about 5 songs later ipod mode freezes... Any idea why its doing this? It doesn't freeze the iphone, just stops the song in ipod mode....
Let me know if anybody has this problem also...
Thanks!

mangofreee,
Have you tried the steps in article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451 ?
Hope this helps,
Raleigh

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