ITunes Store only plays about 10 seconds of a preview before stopping

I try to preview songs before buying them and it's supposed to play 1:30 of the song but it will only play 4-15 seconds of it then it'll stop. I can drag it to later in the song, but it will still only play for a few seconds. This just started about a week or two ago and we haven't done anything to our computer recently. It doesn't even happen for every song, just most of them. The songs in my library all work fine and they play perfectly after I buy them, but not in the preview. I've been all over different sites looking for an answer, but no one else seems to have the same problem. How do I fix this???

Larry, try this:
Close your iTunes,
Go to command Prompt -
(Win 7/Vista) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES, right mouse click "Command Prompt", choose "Run as Administrator".
(Win XP SP2 n above) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES/Command Prompt
In the "Command Prompt" screen, type in
ipconfig /flushdns
Hit "ENTER" key
Totally shut down computer.
Restart your computer.
Now try your preview music again.

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