Songs stop playing early in iTunes.

I recently purchased an Album, downloaded the album, and upgraded the album to iTunes plus.
During playback in iTunes, some of the tracks stop early...always at the same point in the song. In some cases, I can manually scroll past the false stopping point and hear the end of the songs, but there seems to be a gap in the song itself.
Are the files just bad? Is there any way to re-download them?
I tried playing the same tracks in Winamp, there seems to be just random gaps in the songs. In winamp, the songs will play to completion, but at the same points in the song, the progression bar jumps forward and skips significant portions of the songs.
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Do you have the original file on your computer? If it plays in iTunes without ending early, then the resolution is to take the song off of the device and put it back on.
If the original (on your computer) got corrupted somehow (iTunes 8 appears to muck up files during transfers), then contact the iTunes Store by reporting a problem with a purchase. Perhaps they'll allow you to replace the file -- they did that for me when one of the songs I'd purchased somehow got corrupted. If you have a backup, you could also replace the song from backup.

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