I am Offically done with the IPOD... 3rd Dead Ipod.. HELP

It is amazing that this piece of hardware, something that is not cheap by any standards, can be so faulty and problematic. Two days ago my IPod died unexplainably. At least I think. I was having trouble mounting it and what not so I decided to restore it and after that i got the dreaded folder icon. I tried and tried to restore to no avail. I took it to the apple store and in that time span it completely died, wouldnt respond to a charge or a computer. Dead as a door nail. The "genius" told me that basically I was "S.O.L" and directed me to a 3rd party. Im not going to pay for something that I have replaced twice. This Ipod was only 4 months old but it was a replacement for thelast one that I got that had battery issues and the one before this, a 1st gen, had the hard drive fail. I dont get this product. 300 dollars down the drain. Unless someone knows a cheap, effective way to fix this problem I may be done with the Ipod line. Thank you for listening to this rant.

To Lyssa:
In response to your request for a link, about wall charging an iPod and damage to the iPod, if the wall charger is not unplugged first, here it is:
http://www.vsa.cape.com/~danh/ipod.htm
It's about 3/4 the way down the page, in the Charging fact and Fiction section, forth fact. Here's a quote:
Fiction: Be sure to unplug after four hours on charge. At that point the battery starts running down because the charger shuts off.
Fact: The iPod stops charging once the battery is full. But there is no need to take it off the charger right away. In fact, the only mandatory reasons to disconnect are to take the iPod with you, or to make sure the battery gets some exercise. A recent post suggests, however, that if you turn off AC power to the charger but leave it hooked up, it could drain the iPod's battery. I have not tried this. By the way, best practice is to plug the iPod into the cable (or dock) and the cable into the charger, then plug the charger into the wall. We have two documented cases of problems caused by the surge when you do it the other way around. After charging, always unplug from the wall first.
As far a head phones, I avoid any that have a 1/4 jack that needs a mini jack adaptor. Any head phones that come with a mini jack are fine.

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I battled this same problem for about 5 hours. Going through re-installations, the "5 R's", all these discussion boards. Nothing worked.
The problem is that iPodService was repeatedly crashing after minute or so. You can verify this by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Delete and noting that iPodService is missing from the process list (sort by image name), or by right-clicking on My Computer and selecting "Manage", then going to Services and checking out the IPodService service - if it gives you the option to "Start", then it's not running.
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3.4.6.1 Where it says "Enter the object names to select", type in the account name, e.g. "Smith".
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3.7 If you can't delete, you might need to open up the keys and repeat the procedure on the sub-keys.
4. Exit out of the registry editor.
5. Re-install iTunes. I re-installed iTunes and reconnected the iPod, and everything worked.
I want to repeat that editing the registry can completely mess up your computer if you modify the wrong things, so only do this if you're comfortable, and be extremely careful.
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