Ipod acting weird... tried tons of stuff

So this is my third ipod (4th gen 20gb click wheel). No, i didnt break the other 2, the broke themselves. so when this ipod started skipping through all of my songs without playing them i wasnt really worried, i thought i could just send it in and get another one.
then i found out my warranty had expired 2 weeks prior.
so i tried everything, i scanned posts and looked for problems similar to mine, but nothing worked. for a while my ipod was fine again, but now it is messed up.
heres what it does: it will only play about half of my songs; it freezes and then skips to the next song on half of them.
i did a reset, and then it said that it had a total capacity of 98mb, and that it had 176mb free(***?)
and now it wont start up. i cant mount it, because when i do, it just freezes on the charging screen, and i have to reset it.
i have even tried the trick that the "geniouses" at the genious bar do, holding the left and middle button while it is booting up to get into test mode, but all the test come back fine.
i did get a chance to reformat it once, but it didnt solve anything.
any help is appreciated!
Custom built pc 2gb ddram 380gb hard drive Windows XP Pro my computer is a beast

From my past experience, it is a bad sign, and soon your iPod will show a Sad Ipod or a folder with exclamation mark. Having said that it is not end of the world, I would like to make two suggestions:-
1. Send it for repair and it is still under warranty, in return you will get a refurbishment one.
2. If you do not want to do it, (I cant find a reason why not) go to find a Mac (or you can go to an apple shop) and do a Restore there. Once it has been completed bring it back and do a Restore with your PC. I have an iPod photo had the same problem and got solved by doing a Restore with a different kind of computer i.e. Mac's iPod fixed with a PC.

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Until recently, the 'other' part of my iPod would usually stay at 0,01 GB. Sometimes when I'd sync it, it'd become sligthly higher, but when I clicked away and then returned, it would have corrected itself to 0,01 GB again.
Then about a week ago, it suddenly went to 0,04 GB, and it wouldn't stop it. So I tried restoring it, which somehow made the max capacity go from 1.77 GB to 1.80 GB, and it removed the problem, so yay.
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the warranty wont work bc its water damaged and has a cracked screen.
Another website to check out is milliamp.com
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Mac OS X|XP|Vista
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