IPod refusing to play selected song?

About half the time when I navigate to a song, the iPod refuses to play it, and simply reverts back to the home screen, ie. Music, Extras, Settings, etc.
After I hit the center button of the click wheel, the song comes up, and the timing bar comes up, and it looks like it's going to play, but ultimately it doesn't, and as mentioned reverts back to the home screen.
this problem has reduced this iPod to a random jukebox player. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanx. devanson

i had something similar happen to me but my ipod nano skipped through every track i tried to play, and i couldnt listen to anything. i just connected my ipod to my PC, synced, and it was fine after that

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