Ipod restarts and jumps around in songs

When playing back songs both of the new (4th generation) I got for my kids for Christmas restart and jump around in the songs.  The song will start playing and a random point it restarts then after playing a few seconds it might restart again or jump to another point in the song.  It happens on any song played.  We are using iTunes 10.5 and the i pods are up to date, the songs played (and still play correctly on their iPod Nanos, 5th generation)  Resetting them doesn't make any difference!  Any advice or help would be appreciated!
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