IPod Mini refuses to sleep when unplugged from power

Hello, I have a problem with the Sleep function in my Mini. The whole of the context is as follows:
After a period of inactivity (two weeks approx.) I wanted to use my Mini. However, after rousing it from sleep, it immediately froze. When it did respond, any input from the wheel, the buttons or the Hold switch would take up to a minute to be registered on the display. Resetting (toggle Hold, press and hold "Menu" + "Select") did nothing to solve the issue, either plugged or unplugged from the PC or the power adapter. Thinking this might be a one-in-a-million bug, I went and used the iPod Updater to restore it to factory settings and update to the latest firmware (1.6, if I recall correctly.)
That did the trick as far as the random freezes went, and the iPod hasn't frozen since. However, it has completely lost the ability to sleep unless I enable the Sleep Timer. Whether this is a result of the bug which caused the freezes, or a bug from the update, I don't know. I have tried holding the Play/Pause button, selecting the "Sleep" option from the main menu, and performing soft-resets on a variety of situations (connected to the PC, connected but ejected, connected to the adapter, disconnected...) and the device won't go into sleep mode.
Ironically, the Sleep function DOES work perfectly when it's plugged into the PC and charging the battery. Both the Play/Pause method and the menu option respond correctly. Of course, being able to sleep when it's already charging doesn't help much.
Obviously, I've taken care that the Hold switch is toggled to the "off" position, and I have reset the poor mini so many times I'm anxious about causing it damage. As it is, my only option is to set the Sleep Timer to 15 minutes and simply interact with the iPod until I'm ready to let it turn itself off.
Any help would be appreciated. While I wouldn't run out of battery charge (or so I hope) during the day's use, it's still a worrisome bug, and it essentially keeps the iPod anchored to a power source every eight hours, even if I don't use it.

To elaborate more on what Rob said. Since the iPod is a hard drive based device(similar to your computer) the disc inside spins and there is a needle to read the data.
What you are suggusting would be like yanking the power cord out of your computer in mid install of something, the chance of data lose is there and if happened enough bad sectors can arise. Should you do that? No, Would you do it? In most cases not.
A bad sector would in most causes make the ipod freeze when accessing it or make it fail its disk check and requiring replacement.

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