Symptoms: While playing a song, iPod unexpectedly skips to the next song. Find out what you can do if your iPod unexpectedly skips while playing a song.

More often than not, my skips are due to damaged song files that were ripped eons ago, which I don’t have the original discs for anymore thanks to the neighbor’s kid who broke into my car…

Anyway, this article does give some good pointers to deal with that unexpected skip.