ITunes Plus files are skipped

I've updated most of my iTunes purchases to iTunes plus and I saw the same long processing time that others saw. Mine all finished OK though. However some of them now will not play in iTunes and are just skipped over.
Strangely they will play in Quicktime and also in Get info->preview.
I also found that if I skipped the first second of the file (using iTunes->Get info->options) then the file played. Weird! Support let me download again and the latest copies were exactly the same. In the end they gave me a credit.
Anyone else having these problems? I had about 7 files out of maybe 30 or 40 gop bad. They were a variety of artists.
JohnK

My guess is that in the rush to get all the millions of tracks re-encoded, the record companies delivered some bad ones. Probably not surprising given the massive number of tracks involved. Even prior to the big iTunes Plus conversion, a bad track (or several) would appear from time to time. I would hope that at least the majority of tracks with problems will be replaced over the next several weeks. I'd suggest waiting a few weeks before you attempt to re-purchase these particular tracks, should you wish to, to allow time for them to, we hope, be replaced with good copies.

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Quitting iTunes.
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Entering Time Machine, and restoring the "iTunes Library.itl" file from a few days ago. I went back two days, which seemed far enough back to be "before" the problem but not far enough back to have trouble with recent acquisitions.
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