IPod Touch 1st Generation Shuts "Off" Continuously

My first generation iPod Touch will shut it self off after a minute or so, after no activity. It forces me to do a hard reset (pressing both buttons, the only two buttons, lol) to turn back on. When the iPod is on, it works flawlessly, no app crashes, no lag, no problems whatsoever. If I hit the sleep button and wait a minute, it will not turn back on and I'm forced to do the reset all over again. If I hold down the sleep button to actually turn it off, it will still not turn back on unless I do the hard reset again. If I were to leave the music playing and hit the sleep button, it will turn back on no problem. I have tried draining/recharging the battery, which is new by the way, and doing resets/restores with a full battery in case the battery software needs to be refreshed and it still hasn't helped.
This sounds like a software problem so I reverted back to the 3.0 version and the same thing still happens. So I restored back to 3.1.3 and it hasn't helped. As long as music is playing, it continues to work. Regardless if my wi-fi is enabled or not, this problem occurs.
Has anyone experienced this? I am going to get my new battery replaced just to rule it out, but since the iPod works when it's on or when music is playing, it's hard to imagine the battery being the culprit. I will update this after the battery has been replaced but I would still like to know if this problem has been experienced before and if there is a resolution...

I sure did. Trying to rule out a software problem led me to that conclusion as well but it didn't make one difference. I can leave the iPod sitting on the home screen and it will not turn off either until the battery has drained of course, but as soon as I put it to sleep, then it shuts off within seconds, as long as it's not playing music, as I have mentioned before...
In all respects, this really is the strangest behavior I have seen in any gadget I have owned and considering I bought this two days after it was first released, almost 3 years ago and have NEVER had any problems since, this is quite odd...Thanks for the suggestion, I wish it was that simple...

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