Thanks for responding!

Yes, it played the first 30 songs perfectly - I felt so smart!

Then I tried to transfer from a CD I own and from then on - madness and anarchy.

I finally got fed up and formatted the entire thing.

I've reloaded maybe 10 songs and now, even the previously "unplayable" songs play perfectly.

I don't really know if that's the "fix" -- I'm still wondering if the memory (or whatever you call it on an mp3) is bad? I'll see what happens when I get roughly 30 songs reloaded on it.


Thanks again for the reply! I appreciate the input.