Zen MX Skip/Stop Problems

I just bought a 'like new" Zen MX from amazon.com and today was the first day I've used it; every four or fi've songs it will skip/stop for a split second every couple seconds and then play like normal. My question to anyone who can answer this is: does this mean it's gonna die on me pretty soon or is this just an annoying but normal bug? Because I am obviously not covered by Creative Labs since I bought this from an amazon merchant so if this mp3 player is going to die in three months I really doubt that I could get my money back from the merchant after that long. Any help would be appreciated!

Hi,
You might want to perform a Clean Up, Reboot to see if it resolves the Skip/Stop problem.
To enter recovery mode:
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Turn off your player.<
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Press and hold the power button to turn on the player.<
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">When the Creative logo appears , press and hold the back button until the Recovery Mode screen appears. Three menu items are shown:Clean Up[/b], Format All[/b], and Reboot[/b].<
As for the cancer warning, I suppose you already have your answer after reading these threads.
http://forums.creative.com/t5/MP3-Pl...bles/td-p/4330?
http://forums.creative.com/t5/MP3-Pl...d/58057#U58057?
It is just a warning included to comply with the Californian legislation?.

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