Music plays fine in itunes but starts at the middle of songs on ipod touch4

I hope that someone can and will help me... I have had several problems getting this itouch to work. I had to convert all music to mp3 files from AAC...that got the songs to "play" on the itouch but now they start in random places and all the sudden jump to the beginning then jump to the end. I DO NOT want to have to restore, that freezes my ipod touch and I have to take it to someone to get it straightened out. We updated itunes and that seemed to help, but I am terrified to have to start over for the 7th time in the 4 days I have owned this ipod!
Is there anyway to work around itunes? That seems to be my main problem. I have a 2nd gen Nano that works perfectly fine with itunes and plays all songs correctly.
ANY help would be REALLY appreciated!!
Thanks in advance
I am operating windows 7 on a Toshiba laptop (new in Dec)...if that helps.

FYI, I just purchased a song from itunes on my ipod touch and it plays normally.... I have tried downloading music from cd again and replacing file in itunes...doesn't fix.
I am out of ideas.

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DVX100Shooter,
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