Purchased music from itunes music store doesn't play on ipod Mini

Can anyone please help. I have an ipod Mini. Whenever I try and play music purchased from the itunes music store, the song is skipped. I have just purchased a 20 track album and every track skips without playing. It is fine in itunes on my ibook. All music ripped from my CD collection plays fine on the ipod. Thanks for any suggestions.
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
imac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

If you have made sure that both the iTunes and iPod software are current and have deauthorized and reauthorized your computer, try this test:
1. Deauthorize the computer.
2. Create a new user in the system.
3. Download the free song of the week from the iTMS in the new user account.
4. Play the song in that user account to authorize again.
5. Restore the iPod (using the iPod updater) in the new user account.
6. Sync just the free song of the week and see if it plays on the iPod.
If it does, you appear to have a corrupted iTunes library file, and you should recreate the iTunes library file in your normal user account, and then sync your music back to the iPod and all should be well.
The following articles will help you.
Authorization and Deauthorization.
How to create a new user account in Windows.
How to restore the iPod.
How to recreate your iTunes library.

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