Only certain purchased videos locking up 30GB iPod video

What causes certain videos to lock up my 30GB iPod video, but not others? All the videos I have are either purchased or free podcast downloads; All from iTunes.
I transfer the files all the same way to my iPod, by clicking and dragging the file to my iPod in iTunes.
Some play all the way through without an issue.
Some start at the beginning and then lock up after 10 or 15 seconds and I have to reset my iPod because it won't let me do anything else.
Others start playing right in the middle of the video and then after playing for about 10 or 15 second, it locks up and I have to reset my iPod because it won't let me do anything else.
I performed the 5 R's, no luck. I checked out and compared the file properties between one of the files that plays and one of the ones that don't. They're identical.
I'm bummed because I'm paying for videos that I have to watch on my PC, not on my iPod. So what might be causing this problem?
HP 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4   Windows XP   30GB iPod video with software version 1.2 and iTunes version 7.0.1

I have the same problem; at least there's more than one out there. One of the videos I downloaded eventually began to work (I'm not sure why) but it kept freezing up and the audio had horrible static. (When I played it on the computer through the ipod, it worked fine.)
I cannot find an article on this site that explains what to do about that problem and apparently you can't simply send an email to a tech support center to ask about it. I guess I'll have to bring it to a store...
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