IPod skips final minutes of a song; but iTunes plays song OK.

Sorry if this has been discussed before; I tried to find a similar topic but couldn't find anything. It if has been discussed before, please direct me to the thread.
One particular song on my iPod never plays the final minutes - play always stops at exactly same point (more than a minute to the end), playcount is incremented, and next song is played. It always happens to this particular same song, that is never played to the end.
I have already checked if any stop time is checked for the song but nothing is marked.
iTunes plays the song correctly up to the last second.
I appreciate your help.
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Hi there, thought I'd share my ipod nightmare that may or may shed some light on problems of skipping/jumping.
I corrupted my database on the ipod and the only program I found that would display/backup the songs is ipod access (http://www.findleydesigns.com/ipodaccess/index.html) - as I only keep music on my ipod to save space on my computer - and even that kept on crashing, so I backed up one album at a time. 5 hours later...
So I did a restore, this time mac formatted not PC to the 1.3 firmware. Chucked the songs back on and most of the songs would skip/jump....oh yay.
Trawled through lots of threads - eg firmware, defrag issues etc... and thought the best was to revert back to 1.2.1 firmware and zero the data - as there is no conclusion what is the problem.
So this is what I did:
1. Erased ipod with Disk Utility using the zero out data option (in security options) - this takes about 1.5 hrs.
2. Deleted the 1.3 firmware files (ipsw and signature file located in (user)>library>itunes>ipod software updates.
3. downloaded the 1.2.1 ipsw and sig files and put them in the above directory.
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPod/SBML/osx/bun dles/061-2788.20061206.nS1yA/iPod_13.1.2.1.ipsw
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPod/SBML/osx/bun dles/061-2788.20061206.nS1yA/iPod_13.1.2.1.ipsw.signature
4. disconnected from the internet (so it doesn't update to the 1.3 firmware) and restored the ipod. (might have to download the 1.2.1 firmware/updater - can't quite remember sorry - maybe included in the above files)
Ipod is all sweet now. Think I will buy a esata drive for backup now and also read more before I push that yearning update button.
Good Luck.
Jase
10.4.11 itunes 7.6.2 ipod 5G video

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