Random Pauses and Skips in Playback

Apparently others are having a similar problem. I get random skips or pauses in songs on playback in the iPod; mostly, these pauses are minute hesitations that will grow more noticeable over time to the point of even skipping songs or just stop playing in the middle of one. This anomaly occurred in a 3G 40GB and my current color 60GB. Music totals about 28 GBs of mostly ripped Apple Lossless, 192 ACC, just a few mp3s and some purchased tunes. I do not believe this is a headphone issue, as it will "skip" regardless of headphones or cable connected even when the iPod is completely stationary. Playback of the same music, even streaming over Airtunes, reveals no skips in the "original" music in iTunes to which the iPod is connected and synced.
Restoring the iPod only lessens the severity of the pauses (and believe me this has been done many times). I have also deleted iTunes libraries, xml files and preferences, but none of this seems to make any difference. Both the iPod and iTunes source drives have gone through the disk maintenance of DiskWarrior, repair permissions (source drive) and so forth.
Occasionally, after Restoring and on the initial sync of the iPod, I get the error message "Cannot read from or write to this disk". The 60GB iPod is less than a month old and I shows no disk problems; the same problem occurred with the 40GB iPod. Occurs with both the USB2 and FW ports.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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