Books Always Quit When Story Is Restarted. Help, THUMBS ACHE!

My audio books, when played and stopped for a while, will always only begin playing for about three minutes (after the stopping point) and then the file quits and defaults to the starting point. This is a major pain if I am halfway through a six hour book.

This happens on every book from both Audible and iTunes.

I’ve replaced the books with new copies but it makes no difference.

If I’m more than a half hour or or four or five hours into a book, it quits, sending the tracking cursor and timer back to Zero. Then I have to thumb-wheel to the place where it quit. That’s an awful lot of twiddling and finger wetting to get back to the story.

Note: This happens with books only, not podcasts.

Any ideas on why this is happening? (I’m ready to toss the Nano into the river and go back to audio tapes.)

Many Thanks

---Gary (Muscle Thumbs)

iMac Mac OS X (10.4.11) iTunes 9.1.1 (12), 2nd Gen, 2GB (350MB avail