8GB nano resetting itself continually - unable to stop it

Woke up this morning to find my two-week old nano continually resetting itself in its dock. It's now completely unusable - it resets, comes back, 5-10 seconds later it resets again. I've tried everything to stop it from doing this but nothing works. Cannot do a 'restore' as the nano resets itself before the process completes. Cannot even switch the nano off, so now it's just sitting on my desk resetting itself over and over and over again... which it will presumably do for the next 24 hours or so until the battery wears out.
Any ideas on how to stop it, or has my nano bit the dust..? Worked flawlessly for the past two weeks or so (apart from certain playlists not syncing, covered elsewhere...).

Honestly it sounds like a short within the ipod to me. From everything I've read, it seems that the entire charging system for the Ipod is extremely ahh, "delicate" I guess is the word.
The circuitry protection for power spikes and brownouts seems to be non-existent in the Ipod, and the power grid itself seems to be extremely delicate.

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