Song on iPod playing too slowly

I've had my 5thGen video iPod (60 gig) for about a month, and suddenly a day or 2 ago, it started playing the songs on it too slowly. The tracks in iTunes on my computer sound fine.
The slowdown did not directly follow a synching - I hadn't changed any of the content on the iPod for several days, so there was no new data or songs to be transferred to the iPod, and only had it plugged in when it needed to recharge.
I have not dropped the iPod or jarred it in any way. I have tried Resetting, Restoring, Reinstalling iTunes & the iPod Updater and other such suggestions. Any ideas on what else I can try?
Thanks!!

Bumping in hopes someone may have a suggestion before I have to send the iPod off for repairs....
Thanks!

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All of my songs that are on my iPod are in iTunes (How else would they get on my iPod xP) and they all work fine. In general, the songs on my iPod work/play fine, minus a few.
When I go to play them, the load up, I see everything that should be there (album cover, band name, song name etc.) but the song doesn't play. What does happen though, is that the iPod rapidly goes through the album, going song to song, without playing any of them, as if I were pressing the skip song button. (which I am not pressing)
Then it slows down and stays on one song, staying at the 0:00 mark, even though the play arrow at the top is there. If I press pause and then play again, the arrow icon changes, but the song still won't play.
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