Jump / Skipping Problem

I wonder if anyone could help me. I have a 4GB Nano which I purchased about 18 months ago. Everything has been fine until recently. Sometimes when I listen to a track, the iPod starts skipping/jumping. It doesn't skip tracks and it doesn't jump to the next track either. It simply jumps/skips within the track that is playing at the time. The tracks will start to play and then suddenly it will jump to a random point in the song. The jumping/skippig continues until I press stop or until I skip to the next track. Has anyone else experienced this before and what should I do? Should I reset/restore the iPod?
Many thanks.

Hey my ipod Nano is doing almost the same thing. I also have a 4gb that is also skipping but it skips numerous songs all at once, and doen't even play the selection at all. It will just keep skipping till it does play a song..... I Konw how you feel.. I hope we can get this problem fixed. Just to let ya know I have tried to restar my nano but it still doesn't work for me.. If you need to know how to reset ur ipod:
1. slide the Hold switch to HOLD and then back to OFF HOld
2. Then Press the Menue & Center Button at the same time until the Apple Logo appers...
I hope this was helpful in some way..If not I'm truly sorry. Good Luck.
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