About ready to chuck iPod in Trash (Connection issue)

I've been searching theese forums for an answer as to why my iPod Video, hardly a month old, no longer works.
It is exhibiting a number of problems;
1) The battery wont charge anymore
2) itunes wont detect it anymore
3) windows doesn't recognise it anymore
4) When I try to play a song, it takes about 10 seconds to start playing and some of them wont play.
5) While its trying to play theese songs, I can literally see the battery draning away to nothing.
The first warning sign I noticed was about 3 weeks ago, when one morning I tried to play a song. The song wouldn't play, and the batter went from half full down to about 1/4 over the cource of a couple seconds.
Later that night, I tried to charge it, and I believe it did charge. A couple days later, the ipod could no longer communicate with my computer. I hadn't charged it since the last time i mentioned.
I posted my problem on October 15th, and havn't been able to use my iPod since. I have come to realise that it is a big problem, and if I had known i would have returned it, but this is no longer an option for me.
I dont know what to do at this point, and I think my next step is to throw the thing in the garbage so that I can start mourning all the hours it took working in a crappy minimum wage job, while going to college, to buy the thing.

hey, if you dont want it, you can give it to me :P
it should still be covered by apples warranty, unless theres some kind of physical damage to it. your best bet is to send it to apple to get it fixed, or to me, your choice.

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