4th Gen Drama: won't mount or show up in iTunes, flashing icons

So my 4th gen ipod was working beautifully until Thursday of this week. I hadn't used it since the weekend, and when I plugged it into my PowerBook, i got the sad ipod pointing me to apple.com/service/ipod. The ipod won't show up in the Finder, itunes, ipod updater or Disk Util.
After attempting the 5Rs about a dozen or so times, unsuccessful attempts at disk mode, and leaving it plugged itno the wall to recharge overnight, I am now presented with an ipod screen that flashes between the Apple logo (maybe 15-20 seconds), the aforementioned sad ipod (maybe 15-20 seconds), very brief flashes of the gradiated dead battery and full battery logos (maybe .5 seconds each), and then the whole cycle repeats. When I plug it inot the wall again, I get the flat dead battery logo.
I did install 2006-06-28 recently after its release, but no problems until now.
Any guesses as to what's going on here? In case it matters, I would have no problems scrubbing the thing and starting over, if i could just get it to mount soumewhere. My 1-year warranty runs out in the middle of August, FWIW.
I'll be glad to provide any more info if you think that would be helpful.
Thanks in advance to all the mods and readers who check our these boards. You've saved me many headaches in the past, and I hope you can help me wit this one.
1 GHz PowerMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 4th Gen 20gb Color iPod

unbelievable. it just came on. it needed to be charged.
sorry to waste everyone's time.
thanks anyway.

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