Nothing specific, but my Ipod has an annoying habit on albums/shuffle of selecting a track from the same album every other track; for instance if I start it on a Mike Oldfield track, it will select another track by Oldfield, from the same album, after playing something completely different. That's hardly random imo.

Your Ipod wants to return to Girt-By-Sea, and is dropping hints. Fed it eucalyptus leaves, that might keep it happy. j/k :-)