Old Purchased Music Stutters

In the past few weeks I have noticed a problem with some of my puchased music. Certain tracks will play fine for a few seconds and then become very static-y and begin to stutter and skip.
Observations:
It only seems to occur on music I purchased (through iTunes) before 2009.
The static isn’t always in the same place. If I skip to the middle of a track, it will, again, play fine for a few seconds and then start skipping.
The songs aren’t corrupted on my iPod, just on iTunes on my computer.
Recent purchases or older songs from CDs are unaffected.
I hope someone can help! I can no longer listen to these tracks (roughly 250 songs are affected) on itunes, which is annoying and makes me lose faith in the itunes store. I have searched around online and tried a few of the tips (adjusting sound settings, etc), but nothing seems to work. I have plenty of memory left on my computer, and the songs skip even when itunes is the only program open on my desktop.
Ideas?
Thanks so much.

Check the file type of the problem songs, by selecting, File/Show in Windows Explorer. You will see these are M4P files, and in iTunes under Get Info they will show as "protected AAC". Apple dropped the DRM (file protection) some months back. To date there are close to 20 different threads on the exact same problem of protected M4P files not playing properly in iTunes 9.1. Until Apple fixes it in a future update, there are five workarounds: updgrade to iTunes Plus, first burn the M4P files onto a CD then reimport them back into iTunes, purchase 3rd party software to convert M4P files to MP3, play the songs in Quicktime, or revert your iTunes version to an earlier version. In the meantime, send Apple a bug report.

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