IPod Touch freezes while playing music then goes to home screen. HELP!!

I JUST got my 32gb iPod Touch last week, and it only started recently to do this. I will play songs from my playlist, it will go through about 4 songs, then right when it switches, the screen freezes, music stops, and it goes to the home screen. Does anyone know what is going on?? I read that some users had this problem when they had too many applications open, but all I am doing is playing music. Any help would be appreciated!

I had the same trouble w/ my iPod Touch 16GIG Gen 1 & it seemed to be worse after upgrading the software/firmware to Version 2.1; to the point where I was arranging to get it back to The Apple Store before it was 30 days old. The trouble seems to be worse as I approached 14GIG's of filled memory. I mostly have audio, but a few movies are loaded also. But I couldn't view the album art from end to end & it would also freeze & go back to the home screen after about 5 seconds of audio from an audio track intermittently. It was frustrating.
I used the HOME button on the top of the iPod to shut it down {holding it till the 'slide to power off' screen comes up & then doing the slide. Then using the HOME button to turn the iPod back on - seeing the cracked white apple when it reboots & starts back up. I haven't had any more trouble in iTunes. Maybe this reboot cleans up the memory of the iPod & a fresh reboot gives the OS a clean bill of health to look at the 14 GIGs of content that I've added in.
Give the Home button a try & let us know.
Best of Luck-
Doug

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