iPod has hiccups...

I have been noticing lately that my podcasts have hiccups. Every few minutes they seems to garble or stutter for about 1 second. If I rewind the podcast and replay it the garbling does not re-occur. This has happened since I updated to the 1.2 version of the iPod firmware which came with iTunes 7. A bit of digging found this apple discussion detailing the problem. Have not had a chance to try the 'spoken word' EQ setting yet but will do as I am not overly happy downgrading to V1.1. Fingers crossed...

Update - the EQ setting works and my podcasts sound nice and clear again. I also found that by disabling shuffle on the iPod I can once again hear the podcasts back to back. Seems this new firmware was no so great...