Hosed?

My nano was working perfectly yesterday. Today I plugged it into my Mac as I do every morning, and it wouldn't work--screen was stuck on "Do not disconnect" with the backlighting on. The nano would not show up either on the desktop or in iTunes. So I did a restart (toggle Hold switch, hold 'select' and 'menu' until unit restarts) and it restarted but instantly showed me the folder/exclamation point with the URL to apple.com/support/ipod.
Downloaded the updater software, tried to run it, doesn't work: Pressing 'Update' crashes the program (it just quits with no error message); pressing 'Restore' results in the message, "An error occurred while updating or restoring iPod."
Went into Disk Utility, tried to Erase the nano in disk mode. This results in the message, "Disk erase failed with the error: Input/output error"
Please help.
Power Macintosh G5 Mac OS X (10.3.6)

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