Pausing every two minutes or so?

This only began happening today.... My ipod will play part/most of the way through a song and then just stop. I pull it out of my pocket, unlock it to see what's wrong, and it starts playing again. I lock it back, put it back in my pocket. Stops again a couple minutes later, same process... over and over... I thought maybe I should keep it unlocked and see if it makes a difference, but it didn't, I had to switch it to the locked position and then switch it back and then it played again. Once when it stopped playing I accidentally pulled the headphone jack out, but when i put it back in it continued playing. It might be important to note that the music was actually at a pause any time it stopped, it wasn't like my headphones stopped feeding music, and it picked back up when the phone was unlocked or the headphones were reconnected.
I'm confused. Help?

In fact. they think it is the system checking the fan, [which I doubt since the system would have no way of determining if the 'check' passed or failed ] but the fact remains that a brief fan spinning during startup is common for many, and they report no prob lems in spite of it.
The fan(s) in a Mac (a G5 tower or an iBook) are controlled by the Mac OS. If there is no operating system running, there's nothing to control the fans. If the fan turns on for a moment at startup, it's almost certainly because the instructions for controlling it in the Mac OS have not executed yet. When they are executed, the fan(s) would then start to react to changes in temperature. I believe this is what might cause the fan to turn on for a moment at startup.
In an iBook, the fan shouldn't come on very often. On a G5 tower, the nine of them are variable and are almost certainly on all the time even if they're running at a low level. If your G5 has been off and it hasn't had a chance to warm-up, I would assume the fans are running as preventative maintenance to make sure the computer doesn't even start to get warm. In fact, if you get a new logic board put into your G5, the technician will run a utility to "calibrate" all the fans to the new logic board. So, I think it's safe to assume the logic board in an iBook could be out of specification and the fan would run too much.
However, FenderPriest has not said that his fan was running too much, but it's possible it wasn't running when it should be. If the computer was running with the lid closed, some very odd things could have happened. If some simple troubleshooting (resetting the PMU, running the Apple Hardware Test, starting from the OS X install disk and using the Disk Utility to "repair disk", not all of which we've tried yet) doesn't help to fix it, then it may be time to take it in for service. I don't think I remember ever hearing about someone's iBook that had a dead fan...
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Process:         servermgrd [36644]
Path:            /System/Library/CoreServices/ServerManagerDaemon.bundle/Contents/MacOS/servermg rd
Identifier:      servermgrd
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
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-->
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1   libcommonCrypto.dylib                   0x00007fff903b55bc CCCryptorCreateFromDataWithMode + 837
2   libcommonCrypto.dylib                   0x00007fff903b578e CCCryptorCreateFromData + 155
3   libcommonCrypto.dylib                   0x00007fff903b4dfd CCCryptorCreate + 133
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18 libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff928d5b75 thread_start + 13
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2   com.apple.security                  0x00007fff8fa2bc0e tlsPHash + 117
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11 com.apple.ServerManagerDaemon       0x000000010d8ad1ed -[BufferedSSLSocket readDataUpToData:withLimit:] + 74
12 com.apple.ServerManagerDaemon       0x000000010d8ad19c -[BufferedSSLSocket readDataUpToString:] + 56
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15 com.apple.Foundation                0x00007fff94f3d776 __NSThread__main__ + 1575
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