Constant low battery with 3rd replacement 5G ipod

I am really getting frustrated with my ipod. My first one went dead, they sent me a replacement ipod, which had harddrive issues.. sent me a third one, that one had the same problem... they sent me a 4th one which I got now, and with this one I got the following issue:
At first I thought the battery was bad. I don't hear the hard drive spinning excessively, nor does the ipod get hot. The battery drains really fast - is at about half after listening to 14 songs, without skipping and the backlight timer completely off.
After talking to the Apple support line, they suggested I restore it to its' factory settings... ok, did that... right after that, after I loaded my stuff back on the ipod, I checked it out - the battery worked perfectly - after 2 hours of music, the battery did not show even one slight bit of a drain. I thought the problem was fixed for good.
Well, the next day the battery started acting up again, same as before. Although it might help to mention that it performed perfectly as I was listening to music with the backlight timer off, and as soon as I went into my photos folder while listening to music, I could hear the hard drive spinning up, and the battery went from full to almost an instant half charge.
It's happened several times now that the battery was at like half a charge and I left it over night, and in the morning the battery was totally empty.
Since the battery has performed perfectly once so far, could it be something else than a bad battery?
In some post I've read that the battery needs to actually go through several weeks of recharges until it works at it's best. Is this true? Can I expect mine to work better soon here? (I've had it for like 4 weeks now and it's gone through several cycles). Although I never had any such issues with my very first ipod, the battery worked perfectly right from the start.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Daniela
  Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

It is a bad battery. No battery is EVER that bad during the break in period. By the break in period they basically mean that after so many charges your battery life will be optimal. Your battery life should never be like 2 hours. Definatly something to call apple about again.

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