5th gen iPod wheel unresponsive

5th generation ipod, spent most of it's life in a dock. Plays fine in dock through remote. Today took it off dock to use with headphones and it does nothing. The wheel clicks but nothing happens. Toggled hold, did 'select' and 'menu' to reset, but still nothing what gives?

I don't have anything else, as a remedy... odd that the click wheel is generally unresponsive, EXCEPT for those two buttons when you do a reset.
The fact that your iPod's hard drive (plus everything except click wheel) is fully functional gives your iPod some value. You can sell it on eBay as broken, with a working hard drive. Most iPods (with a hard drive) that are broken, are broken because of a bad hard drive; someone will want it, just for the working hard drive. OR, you can look for an iPod (of the same type) with a broken hard drive, and swap in your iPod's hard drive. OR, find one with a working click wheel, to replace your iPod's broken click wheel. OR, you can buy a mini- hard drive case (sold on eBay) for the iPod's 1.8-inch "ZIF" hard drive, and use it as a tiny external USB drive.
This web site has instructions for taking iPods apart
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_Original
and there are probably also YouTube demo videos.

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This is some of the information from the bug report that I thought might be helpful to figure out what went wrong (didn't want to include ALL the crash report, so I just included the info before the "thread crashed" details and the system info at the bottom):
Date/Time: 2007-08-08 06:42:00.704 -0400
OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R218)
Report Version: 4
Command: iTunes
Path: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Parent: WindowServer [66]
Version: 7.3.2 (7.3.2)
Build Version: 2
Project Name: iTunes
Source Version: 7320601
PID: 289
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x72133574
Model: PowerMac10,1, BootROM 4.8.9f1, 1 processors, PowerPC G4 (1.1), 1.42 GHz, 1 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon 9200, ATY,RV280, AGP, 32 MB
Memory Module: DIMM0/J11, 1 GB, DDR SDRAM, PC2700U-25330
Modem: Jump, V.92, Version 1.0
Bluetooth: Version 1.7.14f14, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Built-in Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Parallel ATA Device: ST9808210A, 74.53 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITACD-RW CW-8124
USB Device: Hub, Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: iPod, Apple, Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: BCM2045A, Broadcom Corp, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel, Microsoft, Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 100 mA
USB Device: Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 250 mA
USB Device: USB TO IDE, Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA
FireWire Device: unknown_device, 0xD0F5, Up to 400 Mb/sec
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And when I verified the information about the file mentioned, it shows the same file size and date mentioned when you look at "get info".
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The display on the iPod says connected! Is there a setting on it which changes it from an iPod to a disc drive? Other than that, I can see what's wrong.
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