If You Can Solve This One, Then You Seriously Win

Here's the deal. I have a 3G 15gig iPod that I refuse to let die. It has a new battery that I recently installed.
It will not charge through firewire to the wall or to my macbook pro, nor will it charge through usb (which goes without saying on 3G's). There are 2 ways to give it power, my roommates Bose iPod soundsystem, and my G4 tower at home through firewire. No other way to give it power. (Read: firewire seems messed up.)
Something is corrupted and I've tried every possible way to erase the disk and corrupted files to allow me to Restore the system firmware. The iPod is hasn't worked in some time. A PC will recognize it (but not in iTunes) so I've formatted it on a PC to FAT32 through Windows XP. Then plugged into my macbook, no dice. I thought erasing the corrupted files on the PC would do something, but it didn't.
On a mac, it will recognize the iPod through USB, not through Firewire. Incidentally, I can run Disk Utility and format the pants off the thing, but to no avail. I've erased and formatted, in Mac Os Extended, and in Extended (Journaled), I've even done the "Zero Out Data" erase, which turns the entire disk into zeros--but that doesn't work either. No matter what I do, the iPod will show me the Folder icon after starting up.
When the iPod is recognized through USB, it will be formatted through Disk Utility, but not through iTunes, which claims that "iPod must be connected through firewire to restore." The hitch of course, is that the iPod refuses to be recognized on firewire.
Recently, after doing the Zero-Out-Data erase, iTunes didn't refuse to Restore because of USB, but instead gave me the 1418 error as I tried to Restore through USB.
So my question, how can I fix this sucker without buying a new harddrive?
How can I restore an iPod through USB, or how can I get my macbook pro to recognize my ipod through firewire?
Much, much obliged if you have any input.
--David.

I'm thinking of purchasing a new hard drive, as I think that is the problem. Would this likely allow me to charge my ipod again via firewire and restore it, etc.? Or does the fact that I can't connect via firewire mean there is something deeply wrong? (ie a new logic board would be in order)

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