ITunes Skipping Songs/Part Songs

Hi,
I purchased an Apple iPod 3-4 years ago and loaded music into iTunes and purchased songs from the iTunes store.
Late 2007 I started experiencing problems with songs starting then skipping partly through and moving on to the next song. This occured both for uploaded music and songs purchased from the store.
I put this down to a fault with my iPod and so purchased a new iPod Touch at the start of 2008. I sync'd with my existing iPod account and have the same library but the problem persisted. It also appears to be progressive in that a song that played okay last week won't play okay this week. Once it starts skipping it is "fixed" i.e. the song will always skip from that same point in all future playbacks.
I have done a reset on my iTouch but the problem persists - which suggests to me it is iTunes-based, in that it has happened on two separate machines tied to the iTunes account.
Interestingly there is no skipping problem when I play affected songs through iTunes on my Dell PC.
Any suggestions as to what is happening? And importantly on how I rectify it? It is extremely frustrating.
Thanks
Peter

I just want to add to this concern that my iTunes also skips and it would be nice to get a little bit of help on this.
iTunes it skipped songs i.e. a song will play halfway through and then skips to the next song.
1) This problem is usually limited to all songs in a particular albums. One of them, for example, is in MPEG-1, Layer 3 format. Media Kind set to Music and other options unchecked.
2) A similar yet different problem I have is that some albums play fine under iTunes but the skipping problem occurs under iPod. For example, I have a language course album, so I've tried under Media Kind = Music or Audiobook, but the problems remains

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
You can also transfer the purchased content from your iOS device to your computer, as shown here:
iTunes Store: Transfer purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
And, you may be interested in enabling Automatic Downloads of purchased content on your devices.
iTunes Store: How to enable Automatic Downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4539
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