My songs are distorted!

I just bought a refurbished iPod mini and I used iTunes to put the songs from my music library onto the iPod. I'm having 2 problems:
1) All of the songs that I have on my computer that are from my personal CD collection do not transfer onto the iPod... only songs I have downloaded from the internet transfer over.
2) The songs that DO transfer onto my iPod are distorted. At times the songs sound normal (like this morning), but then it acts up again. If I could describe what it sounds like, I would say its like they're in the recording studio & they haven't put all the elements of the song together yet =/ Its all digitalized or something... weird!
I don't want to have to return this thing, but if I can't get this figured out today I'm afraid thats what I'm going to have to do. Help!
Dell Windows ME

On the one hand, you may have to de-authorize/authorize your iPod (since it was obviously used).
On the other hand, it sounds like you have the "defective headphone jack" problem which means you're out-of-luck.

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