IPod Randomly skips tracks in the middle of play

As the topic says, I have a 30GB ipod and it sometimes skip to the next song on my playlist after the first 10 seconds of the song. The song differs every time and if I were to go back to the skipped song, it'll play through fine. Then after a while it'll do it again with another song exibiting the same symptoms. This happens randomly. So I've concluded that it's not the songs that are causing the problems. (All tracks are in MP3 format)
I don't know if it's broken or something wrong with the iPod's firmware and if I can get it fixed without too much hassle.
Any help will be appreciated

Start with this:
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/

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