Mp4 audiobook problems

With recently downloaded audiobooks in MP4 format - which appears highly compressed compared to previous books I've downloaded - if I don't use the IPod overnight and start up in the morning, going back to the book I was listening to, after about a minute or two the IPod takes me to the next selection in my audiobooks list and loses my place in the book I was listening to. An example of a book that did that continuously was Lush Life by Richard Price.
Any suggestions? I've tried reloading the book but did not help the problem. I'm now listening to another book - Cimmaron Rose by James Lee Burke, doing exactly the same thing. Very frustrating....
Thanks

This seems to be a bug with iPods & Apple is offering no assistance.
I've created several audiobooks from the CD versions I own and have the same issue. They all loose their bookmark after about 2 minutes if you pause the book, play something else, or let the ipod go into deep sleep. When you go back tot he book you were listening to & start playing, it continues where you left off for a minute or two, then jumps to the next track/book.
The otherwise wonderful program "Audiobook Builder" is essentially useless due to this bug. The author of that program has been trying to no avail to get support from Apple.
It seems like Apple is trying to force people to buy books from iTunes or Audible only.
This is very frustrating for people that have many books on CD or cassette already & would like to get them on their iPod.

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