Ipod artwork gone, and won't connect to Itunes

I recently left my ipod in the sun for a while, and it got real hot - too hot to hold. But this has happened before, and I have never had a problem. I have about 50 Gigs of music on it and most of them work, play that is, but some do not. Furthermore, it appears that all of my artwork has dissapeared also. When im in the main menu with the scroller over the "music" icon there should be the floating images of all my album artwork, but that doesnt happen anymore. More about that, when i put my ipod to sleep, and then when i wake it and scroll onto the "music" icon, there is a weird "flashy sporadic color thing" that appears, it looks like when your comuter freezes and all the colors are all messed up.
Also, when i connect my ipod classic 160 GB to my macbook pro, the ipod image appears on my desktop, and i can open it in my finder and search through all the folders (contacts, notes, calendar, ect. .....), but when i connect it to itunes, it will appear on my sidebar, but when i click the ipod on the sidebar, i get the wheel of death  - and then am forced to force quit itunes. the headphone jack still works too. I ran a manual reboot or whatever and it says that the highest temp was 244c which is really hot.
Can someone help me, like is there some way for me to reboot it and erase all my music meanwhile restoring functionability? or am i hopelessly lost and destined to spend money on a new one?
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!

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