How to Adjust Touch Wheel Sensitivity

My 80 Gb iPod touch wheel is too sensitive. Once a menu item is selected, selection often moves above or below selected item when moving finger to ENTER position. Has been this way since purchase. Recent comparison to another iPod confirms that mine is much more sensitive. Have tried clear protective screen/wheel cover which doesn't help. Is there a menu selection/option to adjust touch wheel sensitivity? Any help would be much appreciated.
Custom Made Windows XP Pro Intel - Core Duo Quad; 2 Gb Ram; NiVida 7600 (ASUS).

No. There is no option to adjust the Click Wheel
touchiness. But, I agree that the new iPod Click
Wheels are very touchy. That would be a very nice
addition but very doubtful.
Jeremy
eMachines T6410
Windows XP AMD 64 3200+ 160GB 80GB
iPod
Thanks Jeremy.
Not the answer I was hoping for but at least I know now that I haven't messed somthing up in the iPod setup or options.
Custom Made Windows XP Pro Intel - Core Duo Quad; 2 Gb Ram; NiVida 7600 (ASUS); 80 Gb iPod

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f a sad iPod icon or an exclamation point and folder icon appears on your iPod’s screen, or with sounds of clicking or HD whirring, it is usually the sign of a hard drive problem and you have the power to do something about it now. Your silver bullet of resolving your iPod issue – is to restore your iPod to factory settings.
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C. Try another FireWire or USB port on your computer .
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E. Try to download and install the latest version of iPod software and iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
For old and other versions of iPod updater for window you can get here
http://www.ipodwizard.net/showthread.php?t=7369
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G. Try to put the iPod into Disk Mode if it fails to appear on the desktop
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
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Intermediate Level
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iPod 4G+ (includes Photo, Nano, Video, and Mini): "Back" and "Select"
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Your iPod warranty is expired
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You can’t accept the re-sell value of your broken iPod
Rather than leave your iPod as paper-weight or throw it away.
You can try the following, but again, only do it as your last resort and at your own risk.
Warning !!!! – It may or may not manage to solve your problem, and with a risk that you may further damage your iPod, which end up as an expensive paper weight or you need to pay more higher repairing cost. Therefore, please re-consider again whether you want to try the next level
Last Resort Level
1. . Disconnecting the Hard Drive and battery inside the iPod – Warning !! Your iPod warranty will be waived once you open the iPod.
In Hong Kong there are some electronic shops offering an iPod service for Sad iPod, the first thing they do is to open up the iPod’s case and disconnecting the battery and the Hard Drive from the main board of the iPod. Wait for 5-10 minutes and reconnecting them back. The reason behind which I can think of is to do a fully reset of a processor of the iPod. In case you want do it itself and you believe that you are good on fixing the electronics devices and have experience to deal with small bits of electronic parts, then you can read the following of how to open the iPod case for battery and HDD replacement (with Quicktimes)
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2.Press the reset button on the Hard Drive inside the iPod – Suggestion from Kill8joy
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Have I tried these myself? No, I am afraid to do it myself as I am squeamish about tinkering inside electronic devices, I have few experiences that either I broke the parts (which are normally tiny or fragile) or failed to put the parts back to the main case. Therefore, I agree with suggestion to have it fixed by a Pro.
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Sad faced iPod, but my computer won’t recognize it
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Sad iPod solution
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=412033&tstart=0
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=443659&tstart=30
iPod making clicking noise and is frozen
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2420150#2420150
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I think my iPod just died its final death
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Apple logo & monochrome battery stay
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3827167#3827167
My iPod ism’t resetting and isn’t being read by my computer
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Quote “This has been discussed numerous times as a 'fix'. It does work, at least for a while. In fact I remember using the same basic trick to revive Seagate and Quantam drives back in the mid to late 1980's. Why these tiny hard drives go bad I don't know - could be the actuator gets stuck in place or misaligned. Could be the platter gets stuck or the motor gets stuck. 'Stiction' was a problem for drives back in the 80's. Unfortunately the fix can cause damage to the platter so we temporarily fix one problem by creating another. But I know of two instances where a little slap onto the table revived the iPods and they are still worked a year or more later.”UnQuote

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