Zen Micro plays slowly the speec

Hallo, I owned a new Zen Micro and I'm very happy. The songs are very well reproduced.
But I found a very strange problem: when I charged on the Zen mp3 files containing a speech, then the Zen reproduces them slowly, instead of in a normal velocity. The same files on my PC sound normally.
Has anyone had the some problem? Maybe do I something wrong when I charged the files on the Zen? Or is there a parameter that I must activate that I don't know?
Please help me!
Fil

Khz!! The Zen doesn't support Khz and more?
And what can I do? I do need to listen those file with the Zen!!
Can I transform those files with some software?
Anyway thanks for your help.

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In regards to your issue, you can try uninstall and reinstall
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Moderator Note: Removed the name of the Email Advisor. Please do this in the future when posting email responses from Creative.Message Edited by Jason-CL on 07-2-2005 02:05 PM

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