Playing video causes iPod to reboot

Hi there,
Seems as if I'm having a problem with my video playback. I just picked up a 60 gig 5th gen model, and everything has been great. However, attempting to change position on a video track (for instance, moving forward or backwards in a playing video) will sometimes cause the whole iPod to reboot.
So far I've not been able to recreate this on any videos downloaded from iTunes. It seems to only happen on the four .mp4's that I converted from .avi files... anyone have any ideas why this would occur? They are not mono, like those podcasts that had problems.

Since you have completely messed with your computer, you may want to wait for a verry experienced Discussions Member to help you, someone with over 3 bars...
Try being specific on what you have executed on services.msc, your iPod firmware version, and your iTunes firmware version (iPod should be at 1.1.1 for 5G iPod and 6.0.4 for iTunes).
I nominate bnoir, btabz or Masna to answer this a little better after you repost with specific information
rjl

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