Song stops before finishing playing in ITunes and skips to next song

I'm using ITunes on a Windows Vista 64-bit system. Occasionally, when a song is playing, it will stop before it finishes and skip to the next song. It seems to only happen with certain songs though. Very strange. Didn't happen in the past. Is it a bug in Itunes? Any ideas??

This is really getting annoying. I'm on the verge of giving up on iTunes, or at least giving up on iTunes 8. The first rule of business is to make it easy for your customers to give you money. iTunes Store is a classic example of that. The second rule of business is not to p*ss off your customers. Looks like Apple is falling down on this one.
New information since my last rant. I have another computer running iTunes 7.6.0.29. Songs that do not play to completion on iTunes 8, play just fine on this older version of iTunes.
Worse, this problem has infected my wife's iPod. Songs that iTunes 8 does not finish playing also do not finish playing on my wife's iPod Classic (Model MB029LL, Version 1.1.2 PC). The same bug appears to be in newer iPod software.
I have an old 20GB iPod Click Wheel (Version 3.1.1). The same song that fails to play properly on iTunes and the iPod Classic plays just fine on my iPod Click Wheel.
This problem (at least my problem) is obviously a regression. Apple please fix it!

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