Trouble playing songs

I have an iPod nano 4GB. Ever since I bought it 1 year ago, there is a problem with playing back songs. Some songs are not played back at all and the iPod only plays about 10 seconds of other songs and then continues on. The songs are all mp3 format play on my computer and iTunes. The 10 second play happens to random songs and I have checked the setting on the iPod and iTunes and dont see anything that has an option for this. I have tried retoring the iPod but the problem remains.
Is there a way to play all my songs on the iPod? How do I stop the 10 second playback?

lynx06: The following link might help you.
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I have been using an iPhone and a Mac since forever, and this is the first time I have encountered such a problem.
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While I suspect that the problem might be occuring because of the Explicit tag on the song, I have no trouble playing other songs of such rating from my devices.
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