My Zen Micro has the "hiccups"!

I so WANT to love my Micro, but it's been hard to do so. I've had to send it in for an RMA twice already....and I've only had it for 3.5 months. It's been quite frustrating.
Here's the latest episode: for some reason my unit has had these "hiccups". Picture this, a song is playing and every so often little smidgens (maybe a second or so) of other songs (usually the one that played just before the present one), and sometimes even of the same song, skip into it. I already performed disk cleanup once, as well as re-formatted the hard disk (which I don't care to do again after 3 times........the time I've invested in re-importing my music is what ticks me off the most).
Can anyone tell me what's going on with my machine? Is this an isolated case or has someone experienced this as well? It's irrelevant if the song was downloaded or was burned from a CD. It keeps happening. I honestly have no choice as far a s returning the unit, I wouldn't get all my money back. So can someone please suggest a cure?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

yes i have had the same problem with my previous zen micro, my songs were slow to load and the song would stop mid way through a song. this then lead on to the player not even booting up. i tryred all the options on the recovery mode but these didnt help and eventually i had to send it back. i haven't had a similia problem with my new one but a problem has occoured and i am now in the process of sending back another one !!

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