I had the same problem a while back, and found out there was some corruption in some file (prefs or playlist or whatever) Reinstalling iTunes worked beautifully, although as I'm still on os9, it was a bit of a mare findiing old iTunes. > iTunes started stalling while playing a tune. So I switched to another > tune and it stalled, too. Just for a second or so, but several times > during the song. The rest of the system seemed ok. > > So I tried playing those same tunes from my iPod, via iTunes. No skip > problem. Starting to look like a hard disk problem. > > I tried logining out and back in again, no change, still skips. Tried > rebooting, no change, still skips (actually, stalls is a better word for > it because it picks up the tune where it left off, rather than jumping > ahead). > > Next I tried shutting down, yanking the core, reseating all the memory > SIMMS (1.5Gig, 3 SIMMS). Blew out some dust, looked around for heat > issues (none found). Put it all back together and tried it again. No > problem this time. All is well. > > Next time you have weird system behavior, try reseating your ram.