My ipod is skipping randomly

hi
My ipod nano 7th gen has started to skip songs randomly and has also started to tell me what song is playing half way through the songs and then skip that song. the i pod also fast forwards the songs and then restarts the same song again without me pushing any buttons. I have recently placed five podcasts onto the ipod and the i pod was fine until yesterday where it was skipping onto the podacsts without warning. I have taken the podcasts off the ipod in hope that it would fix the problem all to no avail...
It would be great for anyone to help me as the fact is that the ipod id=s my life and i pretty much cannot live without music
Kind Regards
Phillip Cooper

So an update...
I don't connect my iPod to iTunes all that much. I have music on there that will last a while, and sometimes connecting it messes with my song shuffle... or maybe that's me... who knows...
Anyway, I grabbed some new music in the past few days, so I wanted to get some on my iPod. When I connected it, it prompted me for an update, version 1.0.3. Seemed to install fine, and still no issues with playback.
Have you gotten this update? I am assuming you did, and I'm just getting it now because I haven't connected it to iTunes in a while, but just wanted to throw that out there. I haven't had time to resarch when that update was released.
Ken

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