IPod Classic Pauses at 9 seconds on all songs NOT originally from iTunes?

Recently any song I play that was not originally purchased via iTunes (stuff I had on my old PC for years that have always worked fine) pauses at 11 seconds. All of the songs I have purchased through iTunes and some of the songs I imported from CDs work fine. Is this a glitch in the newest iTunes software?

Do you have anything installed that might be writing to the music file, for example an external program like Clutter which looks for artwork or pearLyrics (or similar widget) that looks for lyrics? If they are finding the information and adding it to the file as the song plays, it can cause a pause or stutter.
Do you have a notification program such as Growl? I don't know enough about these programs to know why they cause a problem but the last time this question got asked, it turned out to be a notification program the name of which I've forgotten.
iScobbler could be a culprit. Look for any helper applications for iTunes.

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