Video starts OK, then audio drops out -- really weird workaround!

Ever since the last iPod updater, several of my videos pause after 30 seconds, then continue without sound. Exiting the video (pressing menu) and returning gives another 30 seconds of play, then pause and audio dropout. This affects most but not all movies -- I can't find a pattern, because some identical movies (resolution, codex, etc.) have different behaviors.
I tried a reset and a restore. I restored with the latest iPod updater 2006-01-10, but, although all the songs and videos got erased, it didn't seem to return to a previous operating system -- after the restore, a new start on the iPod updater showed the "update" button still greyed out (it this normal?). That would lead me to believe, that the 2006-01-10 update was still in effect.
Anyway, I've discovered a VERY strange workaround. If I wait until the sound drops out and then hold down the rewind or forward key to make the movie skip to another spot, then suddenly the movie plays properly again! Sometimes I need to try this more than once, but eventually it works. The weirdest thing, is that once I've "repaired" the movie in this way, it plays properly even if I exit the movie, watch another movie, and then return to the first -- the "fix" seems to be permanent! How could that be? That implies that something defective, a preference or cache, was written over through this "repair". This sounds like a genuine bug, doesn't it? (Strangely, this "repair" does NOT work when pressing the middle button and "scrolling" to another spot).

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