Playing podcast crashes iPod

I'm having a strange problem. When I try to play a podcast from one particular series on my iPod, it crashes. The Apple logo comes up and the iPod restarts. This happens every single time I attempt to play any podcast from this series. However, these podcasts play just fine on my Mac in iTunes. Also, other podcasts will play perfectly on my iPod. Even more strange, the podcasts in question that don't work now USED to work just fine. I seem to remember the problem happening after the QT update or perhaps an iPod update - I'm not sure.
Does anyone have a clue why this might be happening, and what I can do to fix it?
Thanks.

The 1.2 firmware added gapless playback, backlight dimmer, improved battery life, and the ability to play movies to your iPod. But if you want to revert back to an earlier firmware, I suppose you could just got to apple.com/support and then click the download section and download an earlier firmware. I suggest not doing this because you will loose all the features i stated above, and iTunes 7.X requires firmware 1.2 on the iPod 5g.
As for now just turn off the EQ it will allow to play podcasts and it will make your batter last longer.
Hope I could help.
Regards--- jgurbisz
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