Dead headphone jack?

I have an old 4G black-and-white iPod (20 GB), and I think the headphone jack is going bad.
My car stereo has a line-in jack in it, so whenever I'm going somewhere, I plug my iPod in through a 3.5 mm to 3.5 mm cable. Lately, though, whenever I pick a song and hit the HOLD switch, it'll pause the song almost as soon as I put it down. I'm guessing the headphone jack thinks the cable has been unplugged, which it hasn't been.
I've heard that the iPod doesn't like cold weather, and when I'm at work, I leave it in my glove box. I live in Northern Virginia, where winter is pretty cold, so this may be a factor.
Any ideas, so I don't have to go buy a new MP3 player?

I suggest you go to www.ifixipodsfast.com and you can send it into them for $7.00. They will tell you what your issue is and from there you can choose to fix it or have them send it back..
If you are positive its the head phone jack you could always buy the part and fix it yourself..
You can find ipod repair parts at:
www.ifixipodsfast.com
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I'm beginning to lose my mind over this. Maybe someone can shine some light on what I can do here.
I bought my MacBook Pro on Sunday, the 25th. I enjoyed it greatly. I love everything about the MBP.
But no more than 12 hours into it's life, I plugged my iPhone's earbuds into the headphone jack while riding on the BART train. The audio sounded VERY distorted, so I pulled them out, and discovered the volume controls are disabled. One trip to System Preferences later, I find that the MBP is stuck trying to output to S/PDIF. This is verified by the red light coming out of the headphone jack.
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