Songs "skip" half-way through, or start half-way through

I have had my 3GS since the end of October. I just recently noticed that some songs will skip half-way through to the beginning of the next song, or when a song is over the next song will start half-way through or three-quarters of the way through. I then just tap on rewind and it will play the entire song from the beginning. I should mention that it's not always the same songs, and, I generally listen to the iPod in my car through an audio cable.
Is this a common issue? I've seen similar posts but not exactly like this (or I've simply missed them). Is there a fix?
I've just noticed that Shake to Shuffle is "on", so I'll try turning that off and see if that helps at all.

I have something similar and think I might know what is causing it but not how to fix it. I recently created a playlist in iTunes then copied to the iPod. While creating the playlist I listened to some of the songs for the first minute or so. Now I find that while playing the playlist on the iPod those songs that I previewed start from where I stopped listening to them in iTunes. If I go back into iTunes and play those songs again they do the same thing, start from where I left off the previous time. What I'm trying to figure out now is how to prevent this from happening but always have songs play from the start. I suspect that when copying the playlist to the iPod, it has also copied across information about where iTunes is expecting the song to start from when it's played again.
If it's of any relevance (not sure yet) I recently started using Genius in iTunes although these songs were not picked through Genius

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My iPod Mini continually skips tracks all the time
every half a second. The only thing that stops it is
if you press pause but once you press play off it
goes again. This means noi music is able to be played
because it's always skipping. The menu button works
as does the backlight if you hold the menu button
down. The enter button works and the touch pad
navigation also works. Both skip buttons have no
effect on the unstoppable skipping. Can anybody help
or at least verify the problem with other users of
simular problems and if they were able to fix them
simply, without having to go to an Apple dealer (it's
out of warrenty i think)Any help would be appreciated.
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good luck!
-adair
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1363
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