ITunes digital skips and premature shuffle

I'm a new user. I have a few dozen favorite instrumentals in a playlist, some purchased and some converted from my CD-ROMs.
While listening I frequently hear the computer skip over some brief segments of the music. Sometimes songs are ended before the normal end and iTunes (in shuffle mode) jumps to the next tune. I increased the priority for iTunes in Task Manager and updated DirectX with no improvement.
Any suggestions?

Are you using one of those wireless dongle things to connect to the internet? Your locations says "aus" so I assume that means Australia. There have been many reports folks using those in your country are getting this error message.
One solution is to download through a different internet connection, or get the iTunesSetup.exe from a friend with a wired connection and put it on a USB stick.
Other things to try are use another browser (like FireFox), turn off Zone Alarm...
Here's some older threads on that
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11359330
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12313403
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11461015#11461015

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