Ipod restore not working?

So about a week ago my main ipod, a 160 gb ipod classic has been having tons of issues, i don't know if they are related in anyway. First the center button became stuck under the click wheel. Then the ipod was needed to be restored. I did it and that barely solved anything, needing to restore it again after a couple of days. No matter how many times i restore it, the ipod is not being read by itunes and cant sync at all. If anyone knows what is going on, how i can fix it or how much it costs that would be awesome. Thnx

since the 9/23/05 update, I've had some funky behavior with my (pre-clickwheel) 20GB iPod with dock. I've lost about 50 percent of my free memory space.
So I thought I'd restore the iPod.
But iPod updater won't see it. I can't click on update or restore. It just says plug in an ipod.
Apple has instructions for the nano. But not for my model.
I've tried reinstalling the 9/23 updater. won't let me (a newer version exists). Any ideas?

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