NEW "Ipod skipping certain songs" Post... Little help Apple!!!

I've been putting this off for a while, but I finally lost it the other night and almost threw my ipod out the window... upon further investigation I found a post on page 2 with 4500 views about this issue with still no resolution. My new ipod 80G skips certain songs at the beggining, middle, end, and probably without me even knowing. At first I thought this was a CD problem, but all the songs play fine from my Itunes library, then I bought $50 worth of songs (gift certificate, apple WILL NOT see any of my $$$ until this is fixed) and about half of my newly purchased songs played the whole way through (but they do in itunes). Reset 3 times, software update yes, different USB port yes, in fact I have done everything but restore because I dont want to put up with backing up (again) and "re-synching" 8,000 songs. I have synched about 12 times since with no progress what so ever. Whats the Deal???????????
Is there an answer to this problem out there? There are too many of us suffering from this for it to be ignored. It really ***** on live albums (which account for 50% of my library) and its irresponsible and downright unacceptable for it to be happening on my purchased songs. Thanks in adavance for your help and PLEASE feel free to voice your aggrivation here. Lets not only get 4500 views, but 4500 complaints!!

No, the backlight-always-on thing does not work.
I believe the problem is in disk management. I use DiskWarrior to graph my drive where I store my music, and it shows me that I have less than 1% of files out of order (which I assume means fragmented). The iPod, however, tends to have more fragmentation. When I optimize the drive and restore the iPod, the problem of skipping goes away with some songs. I've tracked this by putting the broken songs into a playlist. At one point, I optimized my music drive and restored the iPod and then played through the playlist of broken songs. Three of 31 songs were still broken, just as before. And I continue to encounter broken songs as I continue to listen to my entire collection -- a months-long process.
My old iPod (2nd generation) never had this problem, but it died after 5.5 years at the end of 2008. It would be nice if Apple would look at the software/firmware on the iPod Classic and fix the bug.
I plan to identify all of my broken songs and encode new copies of them, but I suspect that even if I always optimize my music storage drive before adding new music (I can never get the fragmentation down to 0%), I'll still have at least a few songs that will fail to play all of the way through the end unless Apple fixes the problem.

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