HELP NEEDED ASAP! My iPod mini won't start up or charge

My mini which i purchased about a little over a year ago, won't start up. When i restart (menu+select), apple logo comes up for 3 seconds, and it dissapears with small "click" noise, and mini repeats this forever.
When i shift hold button on and off, the out of battery icon shows up, but i can't charge with power adaptor/car adaptor/computer (the charging icon won't show, and it repeats apple logo dispay i described above). i left it charged for 4 hrs, but it still shows out of battery icon.
I even opened up mini, disconnected the battery, and reconnected the battery again, but it just keeps doing "reboot attempt."
I've researched, and i tried reboot literally like 50 times, but it keeps repeating the above. i can't restore neither since computer is not recognizing.
and yes, i tried the battery drain for 24 hrs, and recharging.
The problem occured when i was listening to mini in my car, connected to car adopter. It froze momentarily (just for like 5 seconds) and then it began to skip the sound here and there (like damaged CD).
So i rebooted, and it won't turn on eversince.
I have the latest iPod update, latest OS, and iMac G5.
I've run out of warranty so i don't wanna send in for repair.
Somebody please HELP!!!
(and yes i've already checked the links
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61705
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983 )

If your warranty is expired then they won't send you a new one. That's the point of having a warranty, once it expires then there's nothing Apple can do about it. They give iPods a grace period of 1 year to malfunction, if the iPod does happen to screw up and not a year old yet then Apple does replace the damaged iPod and sends the customer a refurbished one.
Since you have no warranty you can buy another MP3 player (from Apple or whatever other company you choose). Apple does not sell new minis any more, only refurbished ones which are cheaper than new ones actually.

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