Nick, the same thing is happening to me. I burned multiple CDs and the same tracks are skipping at the exact same time on each cd regardless of burn speed. I also noticed that I can play the mp3s on winamp and windows media player, with no skipping, however when I preview the tracks on Nero prior to burning, they skip at the exact same spots in the preview tracks as they did on the cds that I burned. These are recently downloaded new release cds. I wonder if there is a security measure being built in to deter fraudulent cd production, because it is only these recently downloaded tracks that are skipping... previously downloaded tracks don't skip at all. I am thinking of trying different burning software. I am presently using Nero 7 premium... what are you using?

I've had trouble with downloaded songs skipping in playback whenever I used LimeWire's media player. When I switched to Windows Media Player 10 (now upgraded to 11), I could play back the same songs and they wouldn't skip. So it depends on your media player, your CD-RW player, and your CD-R or CD-RW discs. I've burned some CD-R discs with glitched tracks, but that was because I got a glitched download to begin with.