Itunes 10.5 Purchased songs are skipping please HELP

Hi, I have a new Dell PC (a month old) with all drivers up to date, running Itunes 10.5.0.142. I also have a brand new Iphone 4s that I just got Wednesday. Everything seemed to be working well then all of the sudden, when playing Itunes on my PC some songs won't complete and they'll skip to the next song. The amount of time left is random. One song will skip with 1:09 to go and another will skip with :49 to go.
On the Iphone, the songs will also skip (at the exact same spot in the song) except the album art remains until the song "should really" complete and then finally the song that it had skipped to, information will appear.
For example, James Blunt's song Cry will skip with 1:09 to go but on my Iphone I will not see the lyrics of the next song until the Cry song finished at the time it should of (the clock is still ticking but the song has skipped ahead).
Much of my library is being affect, but NOT every song on affected albums.
MP3 Music that I imported from CD's is NOT being affected at . It appears to only be happening with AAC Audio Files with albums I have bought from the Apple Store.
Unfortuneatly this is rendering my library useless and reminding me why purchasing physical CD's still makes sense (and I haven't bought a flesh and blood CD since Itunes was born.)
What I have already done to try to fix it:
I rebooted my PC
I reinstalled Itunes, I also redownloaded it in case my install file was corrupt
I unsynced the music on my Iphone and then resynced it again adding the songs back
I tryed the trick I found here in the forums that says to right click and create AAC version, the James Blunt Album is protected, I'm not allowed to do that
I went to GET INFO>OPTIONS and the start and stop blocks are NOT checked on any song in my library
Things I've done recently since the problem appeared:
I bought a ring-tone maker app and made 3 ringtones and synced them with my phone and I'm using them currently on my phone
(will try uninstalling all that right now)
I got a new Iphone, having had an android phone prior
Does anyone else have any ideas or any experience with this please???
Thanks so much for your input!

I'm livid too Dan and I haven't heard a word from anyone in support. Since this was called Apple Support Communities I assumed Apple Staff used it to offer support. I suppose that's wrong? I don't know if I'm waiting on an update to the software or if I've just lost hundreds of dollars invested in my music library. If I don't hear from someone soon, I'm done with music purchases on Itunes.
Does anyone know where I should ask for help if this isn't a support forum?
Thanks in advance for any advice.

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