Start Up time for Zen

When I don't use my Zen NX (30 GB) for around a day, next time I try to start it up it takes around 5 minutes while it "rebuilds library". This was not always the case, when I bought it first I did not have this problem.
Does anybody know if this can be rectified as the wait each time is highly annoying. I have updated firmware and run a disk clean-up already.
Thanks,
Andrew

Sounds like the only option left is to try a format (obviously backup first).

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