IPod mini stops playing in middle of songs

After hemming and hawing for a while, I decided to buy an iPod. After all, all the cool people already had one.
So less than a week ago, I bought a 4 GB iPod mini from Apple's online store. I'm already having a problem.
I copied music over to the iPod and at first everything seemed fine. Then I realized that several of the songs wouldn't play all the way through. After trying a few again, I verified that they were stopped at specific points. (That is, it wasn't just randomly stopping.)
At time 1:55 on one song, for example, it would just stop as if it had reached the end of the song and go to the next on the playlist. The display showed the correct length of the song.
As an experiment, I removed several of these problematic songs from the iPod and then added them again. The exact same problem recurred. Also, the times at which they stopped were the same.
The songs play perfectly fine on my computer in both iTunes and Windows Media Player. The length of the songs are correctly displayed in WMP, iTunes, and on the iPod. However, the iPod simply won't play them past a particular point.
Can anyone help me solve this problem?
If not, can anyone tell me how to go about asking for a refund?

In case anyone was wondering, I managed to fix the problem.
The problem was that the format of songs downloaded from iTunes wasn't always working correctly on the iPod due to the digital rights management.
So, I removed the DRM.
This was probably illegal. I really have no idea.
In any case, I was reduced to an act of piracy to get my legally purchased music to play as advertised on my legally purchased music player.
Ain't technology grand?

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