Playing shared music - plays 2 songs then repeats second song before next

I'm running iTunes 7.0.1 on a mac mini (core duo) and am attempting to play albums from a shared library I have on a windows machine. iTunes plays 2 or 3 songs from the selected album, then repeats the second (or third) of the 2 (or 3) songs before moving on to the next one...after another 2 songs, the same thing happens. I don't have this issue playing the same shared library from my iBook. I've noticed that prior to moving to the next song a window pops up on the mini saying "opening URL"; this doesn't happen (at least that I've noticed) on the iBook.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Mac: iBookG4, Mini; Windows: homebrew Mac OS X (10.4.7)

OK, I figured out the answer to my question: I switched the drive with my iTunes library on it to an old box running Windows 2000...everything's fine now, and both the mini and iBook are happy. Doesn't make sense, but nothing ever does with Windows.

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