IPod touch gen 4 will not charge or sync

I've never had problems with this until the past week, and it's starting to drive me crazy.
When I try to charge my iPod, half the time it won't charge!  The big battery indicator (the one that fills the screen) won't come on, and I can leave it plugged in all day long and still come back to find the little battery indicator in the red.
I tried to sync to iTunes so I could do a restore, and my computer doesn't think anything's plugged into it.  So I can't sync OR restore now.
Is this a virus, or a hardware issue?
Syncing to a PC running Windows 7 and the current version of iTunes.

...Crud.  I just went to blow dust out of the connector jack, and I found the problem: bent pins.
Last week, when I asked my boyfriend to charge my iPod for me, he must have jammed it in badly.  (My case makes it tricky to find the port without looking; I'm used to it, but he isn't.)
Time to hunt for a used one--I don't have the funds to replace this thing, and if there was a warranty, it's doubtless expired (I've had this iPod for almost 2 years).

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