Songs skip midsong to next, some songs are skipped entirely

1) Recently some songs skip midsong to the next. It mainly seems to affect Bad Religion songs. And actually one album from 'Badlands' No I haven't done anything funny to them. What about the similarity of the band name? Spooky or what? The songs play without problem in iTunes.
2) I also found that a couple of songs that synchronise to the iPod won't play on the iPod. I found this out by sorting the playlist after synchronisation into 'last played' order and then putting the list back in it's original order. There were a few gaps. When trying to play these songs targeted on the iPod they just skipped, ie briefly showed on the screen, but before the music started jumped to the next song. The songs play without problem in iTunes.
Can anybody help?

The symptoms on my computer (64bit Win7) are that it keeps skipping to the next song without having completed the previous one.
ITunes appears to me to be corrupting it's own iTunes Music Library.xml file where it stores information on the lengths of songs (amongst other things). For example, I'm looking at a song now that shows in the listing window as length 5:34. If I try to play this, the time changes to 2:47 and when it reaches that point iTunes skips to the next song.
Looking in the XML file the listing of Total Time for that track has indeed changed from ~334000msec to ~167000msec which bears out the fact that this is not a trivial error and involves incorrect storage of data on the file.
The really odd thing is that if I open the "Get Info" dialog and go to the Options tab then the correct song length is shown of 5:34 AND as this info is displayed, the time in the listing window changes back to the correct one. However, if you now close the "Get Info" dialog and try to play the song it jumps back to being only 2:47 in length.
If I delete the song from the library and then re-load it then it seems to fix the problem *for that file* but my experience is that it recurs later and, with over 4000 songs in my library, this is not a viable option to fix the issue.
This is an incredibly serious bug and it is amazing that Apple have not addressed it yet. Judging from this thread I am far from the only one with the problem but I have yet to see ANY real response from Apple. In the meantime the frequency of this happening on my computer is steadily increasing and I have now been waiting through many updates with no indication that the problem is even recognized let alone fixed.

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