IPod plays 3 seconds of a song, then skips to middle of next song

I've had this (30GB Black video) iPod for about a week and just started having this problem yesterday. Every song I go to it will play about 3-5 seconds of that song and then skip to the very middle of the next song. I don't know what to do. I have about 150 songs, and about 15 podcasts, and 4 videos - don't know if that has anything to do with it...
Any help is appreciated.
Dell Windows XP

you probably have some corrupt songs or the ipod software is corrupt. to solve this isssue, first restore the ipod. click here to see how,
next you want to import a few new songs into itunes and load only those songs, if the issue is gone than it was corrupted songs. click here
to see how to configure the ipod to manually manage mode so that you can manually transfer only the new songs.

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