4gig Nano won't respond to... anything, really.

My GF's 4 gig Nano did something interesting today. She'd been having some problems with it (having to hard-reset to start it at all, anytime it fell asleep), and today the battery was low, apparently the volume fluctuated a bit, then the screen slowly faded out with no volume. At this point, nothing wakes it up. The following is a list of things I've tried:
1) hard restart/reset
2) plug it into a wall charger
3) plug it into the PC via USB (don't have firewire)
These three elicit the same reaction; nothing. it looks like a brick to me, unfortunately.
Before I request an RMA and ship it off, does anyone have any other suggestions?
Thanks

I... don't know what happened. I got home from work today, her iPod having sat all night and day untouched here on our coffee table, and I thought "what the heck" and plugged it into my PC. Nothing happened. "Not surprising," I thought, so I unplugged it, tried a hard-restart, and nothing happened. So I put it down, and plugged mine in to charge.
So help me, as I live and breathe, 20 minutes after I unplugged it, I'm staring at it and it WAKES UP! It's being recognized by my PC and charging as we speak.
All I could think was "It's good to be back, Lloyd." (The Shining)
I should go buy us a lottery ticket.

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