Completely dead iPod... I think?

I'll just start from the beginning.
Saturday morning, while visiting with my father, he handed me his iPod and asked me to fix it for him... his words were "It's no good, it won't even power up, see what you can do." So, I brought it home, and plugged it up to my computer (running windows xp pro).
The iPod is a 3rd gen - the one with the 4 buttons in a line under the LCD. I got the monochrome battery charge screen, and figured i'd let it charge. 12 hours later, after I had left and came back home, the screen was blank, with no charge symbol.
I tapped the play button, got the apple logo, then instead of the monochrome, I got the battery with the exclamation point. That is all the iPod would do... apple logo, exclamation point battery, then die. I decided to let it sit for around 10 hours, then plugged it into the wall and let it charge for around 4-5 hours.
When I checked it again... nada. No apple logo, no battery symbol, nothing.
That was last night. I've been up all night now. I've completely disassembled the iPod, cleaned out the inside, and tested most of it's components with another iPod I have laying around - they all work.
After reassembling it, I now hear a faint whistling noise, but only when I put the iPod right up to my ear. That is the only thing i'm getting out of this iPod now.
Does anybody have any suggestions (other than the obvious throw it away or take a 12lb sledge hammer to it)?

I had this trouble with mine recently. I was able to take it into the Apple store and they hooked it too a firewire plug. It recharged the battery enough to get it to charge. Only thing is now (about 6 months later) the only way to charge it is a firewire and now it won't register that its hooked up on the regular usb so I'm stuck with the same 150 songs.

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