Skipping Beginning of song

I have just got my first Ipod a Classic 80 Gig. I have read in the forum people having trouble with their tracks skipping to the next song but I’ve not come across what mine is doing.
I am finding that it is skipping the beginning of the song, sometimes a couple of bars sometimes it just jumps in as much as quarter of the way through. If you go back and start the song again it is fine, if you go back and play the preceding song it will no do it when it come to the song it skipped before. I am finding it really annoying.
Most of my music is downloaded and then this has been imported into itunes (a package I do not like but that is a different story), the rest is imported from the hard drive from previously copied CDs.
Has anyone out there had a similar problem? Any solutions? I have reset the ipod a few times with no change, I have emptied it and reinstalled the music and no change. It seems to be a random problem, your listening away and fine then the next song starts in the wrong place.

I have noticed that the skipping only appears to occur on downloaded music not music copied from a CD I have (all my CDs have been copied to HD first and not via Itunes), I have not checked every album it would take days but I have checked three today. Two were from CD and one was downloaded, the two CDs played fine and the downloaded one was well crap, it skipped the beginning of three of the five tracks I played.
Any thoughts out there? I am running firmware 1.0.2 as updated by itunes a couple of days ago.
As a thought do I need to run my downloaded music through some other package to clean it up before itunes gets it?

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