Play stops in the middle of a playlist ??

Hi, forum noob here. Don't know if it's been asked before but a search through iTunes Support articles turned up a big bupkis. Nada. Zilch. You get the picture.
Situation as follows: I've located the three albums I have in my Music library, of a specific artist; I double-tap the cover of the first album to begin play from top to bottom, and I am in Album view. I.T then proceeds with the first song as normal, e.g playing time runs normally in the whatchamacallit top bar and the song name is correct. Song #2 -- plays normally, top bar displays name of song #1 and elapsed time is 0:00 (woo-hoo!)
Here comes the drop: around song #5 (of 12), when play reaches the end of the song, I.T stops. Music goes quiet. As I'm working on other stuff, I look up, startled, mouth an exasperated "what the...", and hop over to I.T.
Top bar still show song name #1 and elapsed time 0:00 (yeah, d'oh, the music's stopped!)
This happens in some smart playlists as well as in the main Music lib. Party Shuffle seems to be unaffected however. So -- can someone tell me how I fix this?
Oh, FYI, it doesn't seem to matter if I play HQ MP3s or AACs. And I'm on a G4 Mini with Not Enough RAM...
Cue: The Beatles/"Help" :/
Mac Mini PPC   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

I don't know the answer to your problem. However, you should be aware that this is a User-to-User forum. Apple employees don't generally post here. When they do, it's usually forum moderators letting people know that a particular post has violated the Terms of Use.
Be patient. Someone may know the answer. There are a lot of knowledgeable people here.

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