Truncated Songs - Stop Playing/Skip to Next before the Song's Over

My AAC/protected AAC songs are stopping, or skipping to the next song, at about 10 seconds from the end.
I have singled this out to songs purchased during 2007 & 2008. Songs purchased earlier do not exhibit this behavior.
My entire iTunes library has been recovered from a crashed hard drive this weekend. I initially had trouble getting iTunes to import/"add to library" these 2007 songs, then I found a link to describing how to re-create the library: <docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313>. Following these steps made the 2007 songs playable, but now they are all shortened.
For the 2007 songs, I have one album that I burned to CD & reimported as MP3, in late 2007, before the disk crash. All songs (AAC and MP3) now show the same playing time, but the AAC's stop/skip before the end. The MP3 all play to 0:00 before stopping/skipping.
Any ideas what to do, or whom to contact, to fix this problem? Many thanks...

Hi Scott,
In my experience, the songs that are skipping may not have transferred over to your iPhone correctly. I would advise you to uncheck the "Sync Music" checkbox, and apply the changes (so there is ultimately no music syncing to your iPhone).
Once you have done that, recheck the "Sync Music" checkbox, and apply the changes once more. This will instruct iTunes to completely remove all music from your iPhone, and then copy the files once more. If you have a large amount of music, this initial sync may take a while.
If the above does not resolve your issue, see the following articles:
iPhone and iPod touch: Songs or other audio content are skipped during playback
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3159
Troubleshooting songs that skip
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3217
Cheers!,
Matt M.

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