My Creative Zen has started randomly deleting alb

I bought my Zen (6 GB) from eBay on February 3rd.
It was deli'vered to me on the?5th of February. Although it was for my birthday (on the 23rd), I was allowed to put all my albums on it etc. so that it would be 00% ready for use when I actually opened it on my birthday morning.
I followed the instructions and did?nothing out of the ordinary. Charged it fully before use, didn't do anything weird when I was syncing music onto it, etc. I?have had three previous Creative MP3 players, one of them a Zen (4 GB), but decided to upgrade to 6 GB when?the?4 GB?became too small, and have treated them all the same. They have been fine.
I have been using?my current Zen?since the 23rd, but discovered about a week ago that it has started randomly deleting?various albums. I don't know if it just doesn't like Sting, Fleetwood Mac, or Mark Knopfler, but it's kind of irritating.
Has this happened to anyone else, and what might have caused it's Is it just faulty? Thanks.

My music is bought; just ripped from CD onto my laptop and synced using Windows Media Player (like all my previous MP3 players).
Also, I just remembered that it sometimes does this thing where it turns itself back on after I've turned it off.
Well, it's just deleted all my Bowie albums my guess is, the player s become sentient and has taken against the music I listen to.
Anyway, thanks for your help. I'll contact support and see how it goes from there.

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