3rd gen 40g dock connector touchwheel with 4 buttons above wheel

i have old 3rd gen 40g dock connector touchwheel with 4 buttons above wheel. does not have firewire port on top , just hold switch and funky headphone jack for wired remote control . battery has long since died but still runs fine off wall current charger which has fire wire connector on wall socket end. i try to plug ipod into my laptop with usb cable to charge and update the ipod and i get the battery sign with exclamation mark in triangle on ipod screen and computer doesnt charge or recognize the ipod connected. my laptop does not have firewire port. is there a way that i can connect this old ipod to new laptop to charge and or update ipod with my new library? i dont care if battery is dead , i just leave on wall current in my office to play but would love to be able to update the library on the old boy. i have new shuffle/nano and itouch for traveling.

an update - it seems to be the 2 skip buttons, play and menu, and also the centre ok button not working at all. the wheel responds slowly. something just occured to me and i tried to use the remote which came with my ipod. this works fine with no problems but is annoying as i can't select certain songs, i have to start at the beginning and skip to where i want to get.
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