Click wheel not working properly anymore

Weird problem... my click wheel (4th gen) doens't work correctly all of a sudden. The buttons all work fine, but the wheel does not, meaning I cannot scroll through menus or turn the volume up/down or skip through a song's timeline anymore. I have tried the 5 R's. All of them. Including resetting the ipod to factory settings. Updated to the 1-10-06 software update. Just very strange the buttons work (play/pause, select, menu, forward, back) but the wheel itself does not (volume, scroll, scrub). Anyone heard of this? Went through a lengthy search and have found nothing so far. Thanks for your help.

Well Lufo you're not alone. My 4th generation iPod has exactl the same symptoms as yours. Scroll wheel not respondng at all but the select/menu/rew/fwd/play & pause working ok. I've tried the restore, firmware updates and, well everything imaginable. Mine is 2 months out of warranty and have just gone through the Apple repair service and have come back saying it will be £166.00 ($290.00) which I am absolutley shocked by. Needless to say that I didn't continue with that and at that price they can stick it where the sun doesn't shine. It's near the cost of a brand new unit here in the UK. To say I'm disguted is an understatment. Does anyone know of any good non-Apple repair outlets here in the UK?

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