80GB Classic docking problem

I bought my 80gb classic in september and it works great with the headphones. Recently i plugged it into my friends sound dock and though it played it shut off by itself from time to time. After disconnecting it, the following day the sound did not work with the headphones and I had to restore to factory settings with my pc. Yesterday I received the bose sounddock as a gift and though my ipod played music it did shut off on its own from time to time and now today when i went to use it is says the connect to power source. Has this happened to anyone else and am I going to have to restore everytime I connect to a sounddock?

There are other threads here that discuss this very problem with the Classic and the Sound dock.
If you do a search you'll find them. I can't recall if there's a fix for this or not.

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