Itunes not playing entire song

I recently downloaded iTunes 10.5 onto my newest PC laptop with Windows 7. I signed into my account and authorized my new laptop to my account. Then, though the iTunes Store, I transferred all my purchases to this new laptop's iTunes library. However, with half the songs I transferred, and several brand new purchases I made last night, iTunes will only play the first 10-45 seconds of the song and then skip on to the next one. There is no stop time for any of these songs. Does anyone know what I can do to play the entire song? I can understand this issue happening with songs I purchased three years ago and have transfered from computer to computer, but it's far too frustrated that this happened with a new song I downloaded last night from the iTunes store on my new laptop. I have tried restarting iTunes and restarting my laptop altogether.

i had this too, the only way I was able to solve it was to rebuild my library, ***** but is the only way.
Most likely you will experience that new songs informations are no longer stored and it will run determination for gapless playback on every startup of iTunes!

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@CPL_STEELE: can you try to post these specifications in your own topic? (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=985161&tstart=0)
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