Zen Touch - Random play interupt

Occasionally when using random play mode around 20 minutes after starting, my Touch stops mid-song and re-boots from the intro screen. All on it's own, it starts playing from the point where I originally turned it on 20 or so minutes earlier.... same song, same volume settings, etc. After this happens, I did the disc clean-up and reboot/rebuild library, and all seems well. But it still occasionally happens. I haven't been adding music lately, so I don't think it has anything to do with fragmented files. Any help out there?
Other than this relati'vely minor problem and my inability to synch with WMP0 playlists, I love my Touch!

I don't think the Touch has a sleep timer, but it shouldn't cause it to spontaneously reboot either.
Do you have the latest firmware, or have you tried reloading the firmware?

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