this happened to me too (Score 1)

my wife has one of the new 10G ipods with the dock. i had been using it with our windows pc, but then we got a powerbook, so i began using it with that. i added songs to it, and the first time she used it, the ipod did the same thing described in the article -- it started skipping through, playing 0 seconds of each song. i simply reformatted it with software downloaded from apple's web site and it fixed it.