Not playing songs

Hi,
I have noticed that my ipod skips songs (only noticed it from one specific album so far).  I will go play the album and the song titles quickly show up, then go to the next song on the album and so on, to where the album is 'finished' after like 3 seconds.  The album plays just fine in iTunes.  Why is this happening?  I have a 160 GB classic ipod, which I recently had to restore given that my hard drive on my computer failed and I had to reupload all my songs.  After this is when I started to recognize the problem with the songs not playing.
I would appreciate any suggestions on how to fix it.
Thanks,
James

http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/import/
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/windows/
reset your nano - hold the Menu and Select buttons down until you see the Apple logo

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