Zen Vision M Track Skipping

okay, i got my ZVM, 2 days ago, and yesterday i put music on it, i thought.. great!! But then when i was listening to some of my songs, some songs just skipped foward to the next song, with me just lying down on my bed listening to it, ie. not moving..
I have tryed The clean dri've thing in the reboot menu, i have updated the firmware, and i have took all the music off, and then on again, TWICE! my sister said that it sometimes happens to her Zen Touch 20GB when she puts masses and masses of muic on at one time, so i tryed only putting a few songs on it, but still it happened, does anybody have any suggestions, it might be my computer, but if it is not, i can still get it replaced, is there anything i can do to fix it's
PLZ help...
Thanks

ToolkiT wrote:
That sounds like problems with your Harddisk
But it could be an incompatible MP3 too, does it happen to the same song all the time or are they random songs (if random it prob is your HD )
It happens to the same song every time at the same place each time... which supports my hteory that it is my computer.
"if all those clicks are all under 5 seconds thats bad. how long does it take for the hdd to stop spinning?"
Well it take about 6 seconds for my hard dri've to stop spinning... the small clicks are quite rapid, and on the last loud click, thets when the hard dri've stops spinning...
Any suggestions?

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