IPod 5G isn't always playing songs without gaps

I've found that a couple of my albums (encoded in Lame) refuse to play gapless on my iPod even though it plays fine in iTunes. Converting the MP3s to ALAC/AAC both create files which are gapless on the iPod but the original MP3s still won't play right.
It's quite confusing, and annoying. It's obvious that they're fine if iTunes can play and decode them without gaps, so it must be an iPod problem.
Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) Mac OS X (10.4.8) 466 MHz, 256MB, 20 GB, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB

here's what I posted in another thread with the same problem...
"I had the same problem as well. I had some songs I downloaded from iTunes and others from a CD (imported as MP3). The album was from Panic! At the Disco, and the two songs that flowed that I had a problem with was "But It's Better if You Do" and "I Write Sins, not Tragedies" with "I Write Sins" being the song purchased in iTunes and the other song being the one I ripped from a friend. All I did was convert the other song from MP3 to AAC and that did the trick! Right click (or control click) and select "convert to AAC". If you have "convert to MP3" or another format, change your settings (edit [iTunes if you're doing this on a Mac] ---> preferences ---> advanced ---> importing]
this should help you, if you don't, I'll try to find another way."
in addition, try importing ALL of your CDs in AAC format, and convert any non-AAC formatted files into AAC.

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