Ipod plays 5 songs, then goes silent, often showing Cover Flow as ghostly boxes.

It does this mostly on newer albums. I've already tried: Latest iTunes, latest iPod software, reset, restore, and finally return/exchange for brand new 160 gb. Still!
I can fastforward to the 6th and subsequent songs to play them. But if I fastforward anytime before the 5th song is over, it will usually still stop after the 5th song. When I turn the screen on after a freeze, the album covers are often gray & white squiggly lines. I did get the Red X of Death one time yesterday, but that went away.
The iPod is fully charged. The only non-standard setting I have is EQ (equalizer) set to Rock. Remember this is my second iPod having this problem About all I haven't tried is uninstall/reinstall iTunes -or- Restore iPod from Disk Mode. Whoever solves this should win the Nobel Prize.
Suggestions?

Since the problem has been persistant across two different iPods, it seems like that the issue is with the tracks themselves. You said most of the tracks giving you problems were purchases from the iTunes Store. Do they stil play okay in iTunes?
Either way, I would remove them from iTunes, redownload them again at no cost via iCloud and resync them over to the iPod Classic.
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