Hard Drive Repeatedly Unseats Itself

Hey everyone, I have a 20GB iPod 4G from December, 2004. Lately I've been having some problems with it that result in the folder icon appearing on the screen. I've tried restarting it and doing a software restore. Neither work, infact the software restore can't even be completed. Apparently the hard drive is coming unseated.
I brought the iPod in to a nearby Apple store, where they reseated the hard drive and temporarially fixed it. A few days later the hard drive came unseated again (the guys at the Genius Bar ask me if I run with it or have dropped it, I haven't) and they reseated it for me. Then it died again.
I tried opening it up myself with a guitar pick and checking all the connections. This got me about 10 minutes of music playback before it died again.
I'm just wondering if anyone has had a simmilar problem or has any ideas of things I could try. I only want to get about 5 more months out of it, and would really rather not make another trip to the Apple store.

First off, is it possible that your first language is not English (I don't mean that sacrastically)? I really don't feel like you're understanding my posts.
Try searching around the Discussions though.
The first thing I tried was searching the discussions. I couldn't find anything on an iPods drive coming unseated, so I started my own thread.
It must be a problem with the disk on the hard drive,
it's having trouble reading it.
Like I said earlier, the hard drive is physically unseating itself, even under light use. It's not an issue with the actual drive platter ("disk").
Your best/safest option is to get a new MP3 player.
Once again, I really don't feel like you're understanding my situation. My iPod is physically intact and the hardware is functioning properly, but the hard drive keeps coming unseated.
Thanks for trying to help, but I don't feel like your responses have adequately addressed my problem. Does anyone else have any ideas? I may try opening it up and inspecting the interal connection again.

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