Songs Play Twice (Sometimes)

I just updated to iTunes 7.0.2 and when I play songs off my 3rd-gen iPod through iTunes, occasionally a song will finish and then restart rather than going onto the next song. (Repeat is definitely set to off.) Other times, just before a song starts, I get a little split-second burst of the beginning of another song (possibly the song that just finished playing). Turning on the crossfade gets rid of these problems, so I assume they were introduced with the gapless playback feature.
Anyone else have these problems or know of a better way to get around them?
  Windows 2000  

Replying to my own post with a solution, just in case anyone else ends up having this problem.
Some background: I have my music library on my home computer. I synch playlists to my iPod, switch it to manual and then take the iPod to work, where I listen to it through iTunes on my work computer (because I like the interface and I like to have the iPod mounted as a disk so I can use it to transfer non-music files).
The problem I describe in my first post seems to be the result of playing an iPod populated from an iTunes 6 library through iTunes 7. (I had originally upgraded to iTunes 7 at work but not at home.) Now that I have upgraded to iTunes 7 at home (giving it time to do the gapless playback processing), resynched and retried things at work, I no longer experience random repeats of songs or glitches at the beginning of songs.

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