Intermittent screen fault

My Ipod Nano 2nd Generation has the following problem. Screen seems to freeze and another screen can be seen behind the frozen one, other times the screen goes grey, or has black lines down it, some times it's fine and works for hours with no problem. Have tried soft & hard resets. Wiped the memory completely and put only 1 cd on still the same.
To try and describe is difficult but the ipod is rendered almost unuseable whenits playing up as you can't select the music you want.
This happens whether the ipod is docked in the Apple hi-fi or on earphones
Ipod is just out of warranty however Apple or Curry's won't help me, any thoughts apart from buying a new one?

My 2nd Gen Nano just began having an issue (also a couple months beyond the warranty) that sounds very similar that I am hoping to find a solution for besides just replacing it
here's where I am with mine:
this tuesday I synced it to my MBP before going to work. Syncing appeared to run as normal. following it finishing, I clicked to disconnect it thru iTunes. It appeared to disconnect from iTunes and from my desktop, but instead of the Nano screen going from saying "do not disconnect" to "ok to disconnect", the screen went grey (backlit) with a couple very thin horizontal darker lines 2/3 down the screen. I didn't think much of it, and removed it from the usb cord. I then noticed it was locked up. I re-connected it and detached again. It did the same thing again. Figured I would do a hard restart on the way to work, so grabbed it and got in the car. Before I did the hard restart, I plugged it into my Pioneer car stereo adaptor. The nano screen shows the Pioneer logo stuff as it always does, so figured it was back to normal. Then noticed it appeared there was no data on the ipod (thru the car stereo). Disconnected it and now the Pioneer screen with the original connection time was stuck on along with the back light (I had tossed it in my bag without paying attention, and when I got to work an hour later it was still on with the time shown when I originally plugged it in - as if frozen in time). I did a hard restart (top & center button) and when it came back on all seemed good again.
Then... next time I went to use it, the screen was backlit but had no graphics. You can hear the click wheel and it plays, but has no display. I did a hard restart again - and again it appears normal.
When I got home Tuesday night I tried to sync the Nano to my MBP again thinking whatever issue it was having may be corrected. No.
I then did a full restore thru iTunes. loaded stuff back onto it and hoped for the best.
The restore did not seem to make any difference, and it still will loose the screen graphics - and have them return to normal after a hard restore. Some times the screen will go out while it is being used - and almost always after it has sat unused for a while (couple hours).
Also yesterday (thursday), following syncing, I was getting an error saying the Nano was being used by another app and could not be disconnected. This was both thru iTunes and attempting to disconnect directly from the desktop.
I restarted the MBP, made sure I have the most recent Leopard updates and tried syncing again. No change. Also should add, the Nano also is up to date, 1.1.3 if I remember correctly (or was it 1.3.3?).
I have taken the Nano into my local Apple store - hoping there was something obvious I was overlooking that one of the staff sales guys would think of, but no luck (but you can get a 10% 'recycle' discount on a replacement).
I hope someone here has a suggestion/solution, besides having to keep doing hard resets - or buying a new one

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