The voice over thingy goes crazy when switching sound system.

When itunes asked me if I wanted the feature where an artifical voice says to me what's currently playing on the ipod when pressing the middle button, I answered yes. Because I wanted it.
The feature works as expected, when I listen away on the pod and press the button the voice says what I'm currently listening to.
But.
When I leave home to go to work I plug in my headphones and listen away all the way to work. When I arrive at work I simply disconnect the headphones (ipod automatically pauses) and I plug it in to the speakers I use there. When I've done this and press play the artifical voice starts saying EVERYTHING I have on the ipod in one long sequence. Turning the ipod off and on at this point does not help. Turning on the radio and then turning it off kills the voice though.
This happens every time, at lesat five days a week.
Bug? Broken?
Best Regards

I tried the Reset & Restore guide you linked to for me. And since I performed the steps in that guide I haven't been able to get VoiceOver to work at all! I checked the VoiceOver option on the iPod menu in iTunes but I get no voice when pushing the center button on the iPod.
I tracked this down and it seems the work around for this is to set the option VoiceOver Language for every track to something else than the default value which is 'Automatic'. i tried this for a couple of tracks and it worked - but come on, this is Apple late 2009 - make it work!
Yesterday i updated to the new iPod firmware but still no dice, I still have to change the language option for tracks to enable them for VoiceOver. Oh and by the way I upgraded first and then performed the Reset & Restore guide once more, just to make sure.
Hence I have not checked if the original problem of this thread remains because I'm not going to set all my track languages, it's ridiculous. So in a way the tip fixed my problem I guess... But not really...

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