Extreme anomaly with iPod Touch battery indicator

I have a 1st generation iPod Touch running iOS 3.1.3.  I never noticed a problem with the battery indicator before.  After last night, however, there seemed to be a tremendous (albeit temporary) anomaly with the battery indicator.  I googled it, but found that most fluctuations in the battery indicator were random and minor compared to what I saw.  Some were due to extreme power draw on the battery.  None of what I found matched my rather unusual circumstances.
Here are the cirumstances.  I live in a noisy apartment building, so I repeated play a noise track on the iTouch to mask out the noise from other dwellings.  The iTouch is docked onto a mini boombox, RCA's RCD175i (http://tinyurl.com/bolurw7), which charges the iTouch as it plays tracks.  I also wear earplugs at night, so I crank the RCD175i's volume to be able to hear the noise track (the iTouch's volume is set to max).  This solution is only partially effective, but that's not central to my description of the problem.
Last night, I was particularly anxious about getting rest, so I cranked the RCD175i's volume significantly more than usual.  I was shocked to find in the morning that the battery indicator showed approximately 20%, even though the charging indicator was showing.  I removed the iTouch and plugged it into the Apple white cable that connects to my laptop's USB, hoping to give it a bit of juice before I took off for the day.  Nothing much changed by the time I unplugged the iTouch to leave.  At the end of the day, however, the battery showed a full charge.
This anomaly does not fit what I found on google because:
• The power draw was no more than usual
• It was far greater than the fluctuations I read about
• It doesn't happen randomly (never happened before)
• It happened when I docked it on the RCD175i and cranked the volume
• I have never jailbroken the iTouch
If I had to make a wild guess as to the problem, I would say that the RCD175i's docking interface is improperly designed, which messes with the RCD175i's charging calibration.  Having the volume set high might cause noise to propagate through the dock to the iTouch, maybe degrade recharging voltages/currents being fed to the iTouch, or corrupt feedback signals that control the charging (if any are used).  These are all wild guesses because I have no idea how the iTouch's charging system operates.
I'd like to ask anyone:
• for comments on the above speculation and/or solutions
• for other plausible causes and/or solutions
• whether they notice a correlation between battery indicator anomalies and docking the iTouch on 3rd party audio systems
• whether they use the RCD175i specifically and have the same problem with high volume on the RCD175i

I'm beginning to notice a pattern.  When I plug it in to the laptop USB port or to the boombox iPod dock, the battery charge indicator shows about 20%.  I never noticed that before.  When I remove the iPod Touch from the connection, after some (yet undetermined) time, it may go back to 100%.
This seems like a recent behavioural quirk, along with another quirk that seems to have come up at around the same time.  Whenever I plug the iPod Touch into the laptop USB port, I get an autoplay window coming up, which I just banish.  However, it is strange that this has never happened before this strange turn in behaviour with the iPod Touch.               

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