My 60gig Mk2a also sometimes "waits" 2-3 secs before starting to play the track. This only happens when I've skipped a (or more) track(s).

If you skip ahead enough tracks while the disk is spun down, the player has no option but to spin the disk up again (taking maybe four or five seconds) before playback starts. "Enough" is about three or four.

If anyone is encountering 2-3 second delays between tracks during normal play -- without you having skipped ahead -- that's unquestionably a bug.

Peter