Creative Zen going black/freezi

Last night, after having overcome most of Creative's dodgy firmware etc, my MP3 player gave up on me for no reason. The screen went black (not black, as whenever it's turned off, brighter than that) and it the buttons stopped working. I couldn't turn it off, so I just left it til it ran out of power and the next morning charged it to my computer, where it spent about 5 minutes with the blue light on the side flashing before deciding to turn on and dock. This really shouldn't be happening, has anyone else had this problem and how can I fix it's
Sorry if this question has been asked before.

Yeah it's annoying, the next time it happens though stick a pin in the button to reset it and it'll turn back on after a while...don't stick the pin in the microphone one though (on top)!

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/being venting
Why does Creative make it so easy to Reload the firmware, and why do soo many people choose this option!?!?!?
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Creative-ZEN-Vis...item53d952aca0

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