Music Skips On Friends HP Pavillion?

The music on my roomates laptop keeps skipping on his brand new HP Pavillion Laptop well it's only 5 months old.

We've elimated that it could be corrupted files because we've transfered the songs to his MP3 player and my computer and they play perfectly.

I don't think it's the drive because it's playing straight off the laptop.

Also I think we've elminated the player as the issue because he's had the same problem with iTunes 7 and Window Media Player 10. Also he doesn't have any programs besides messenger running. So there shouldn't be a fight for memory.

Me personally I think it's nothing impressive.

Any suggestions on what the music problem is?

Specs on his laptop:

HP Pavilion dv5223om

AMD Turion 64 ML-37 @ 2.0Ghz

1GB PC 2700 DDR RAM

ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200

OS: Windows Media Center

Music Skips On Friends HP Pavillion?

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Try reinstalling the mp3 codecs ("Lame")

Music Skips On Friends HP Pavillion?

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ok ok