IPhone plays only one song at a time

After 2 weeks of the iPod feature of my iPhone working just perfectly, last night I discovered it will no longer go through a play list. No matter what I do, it plays only one song, repeatedly - either a song I choose or a song selected randomly by hitting Shuffle. Shuffle only chooses the first song randomly, after which that song plays over and over unless I manually choose another. I deleted my playlists this morning, rebooted iTunes, re-synced my playlists to the iPhone, same problem. Other than having to go through an entire Restore, are there any other options? This actually occurred out of the blue, NOT after a re-sync with the computer, therefore NOT caused by the iTunes update to 7.3.1.
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THANK YOU!!! I never would have found that myself because I don't even look at albums let alone play whole albums. My playlists are favorite songs from here and there and rarely more than one or two from any particular album. I don't know how that got changed since I have never looked at an album before, didn't know there were time and shuffle markers. I must have gone bump in the dark... so thank you again!

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Okay, so my ipod is offically broken. I got it as a b-day present in the summer of 2005, and i had to send it back once because the battery broke. This friday (yep, friday the 13th) it broke when i was waiting for my bus.
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I don't think that it has to do with the itunes 7 though.
I just install it today, and my shuffle broke on friday.
I really hope that some one is going to answer this SOON because i am NOT looking forward to a busride with smelly, loud, self-center freshmen (they really do smell, I'm not trying to be a jerk, and they are self-center and EXTREMALLY loud for 6:30 in the morning) with out music.

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