Bluetooth Stereo Question -- LG HBS-200

[Helios]

I just picked up an LG HBS-200 stereo headset from Verizon and it synced up all fine, but I'm having a few issues.

The first thing I noticed was the skipping on the mp3s -- I have a 4GB microSD card that I have only about 500mb of music loaded on right now. I've tried both WMP as well as TCPMP 0.72RC1 and they both have the same skipping issue -- WMP skips for longer moments at a time, while TCPMP skips more often but for less time per skip. I haven't figured out how to fix this yet.

After a day of using the headphones, however, I've started to notice something that's even more maddening than the skipping -- that is, the stereo seems to be slightly off kilter.

By this I mean that the sound in one ear is fine, but the sound in my other ear is some what tinny and hollow. It actually makes my eyes water while listening to it. At one point it was really bad, but then I re-synced it and it seemed to be better, but it's still pretty bad.

Is this simply due to the quality of the headset I got, or is it something I'm configuring incorrectly?