Transfering and playing PURCHASED music- plz help!

I have recently made the switch to purchasing music, but the problem is that i am unable to play them on my IPOD NANO- the songs seem to transfer okay, but when i go to play them they skip and it goes to the next song....
the only way i have been able to play these songs on my ipod is to burn my purchased playlist to a CD then rip it each time i buy a song....this is very cumbersome and time consuming
is there anything i can do short of calling and yelling at apple lol....???
thanks for your time
M-I
Win. XP - Dell desktop Windows XP not very good w/ computers

Hi, Mister Incognito.
Have a look at this article in the Apple Knowledge Base and let us know if it brings you any combination of joy and/or satisfaction.

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