IPod battery not charging unless in speaker-dock

I have my iPod 5g (60gig) for about 2 years now. About 2 months ago the battery started to act up.
It would very suddenly discharge completely (I noticed that my room had gotten unusually cold before the first of these failures). The ipod would not respond to buttons, and plugging it into the computer dose not charge it.
After some trying i discovered that the ipod would charge again if pluged into an i-station speaker-dock, and after 2 or three minuits in the i-station it would also charge fine from my ibook.
About 2 weeks ago the battery on my ipod again got itself completely discharged. As i did not have access to an istation i was unable to recharge it since.
Today I bought a belkin usb-wall charger with ipod cable that is marked as 'made for ipod' and states clearly that it is ipod video compatible at walmart (i'm on holidays in the US) and have been trying to use this to recharge my ipod, however the charger is not helping.

I received a 4th Gen 20GB iPod (around 2 years old)from a friend and asked me whether I could fix it for him, which has been left untouched as a paper-weight for almost 2 months.
I tried to turn it on, and the screen was completed blank and the device looked dead. Before doing anything I prepared the following:-
1. A window based PC
2. A Mac computer
3. An USB iPod cable
4. A Firewire iPod cable
5. An iPod AC charger
As the iPod was previously formatted on a PC, therefore I tried to plug it with a PC via USB cable, it did not response and not able to get recognized by the PC. I ejected the iPod and connected with an AC charger, after a few minutes, I did a Reset for the iPod
How to reset iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61705
The iPod showed an Apple sign, it stuck there for almost a minute, the screen then showed a battery with an exclamation mark sign, and after a minute, the iPod turned off itself. I was sure that the iPod carried very low battery, and could not be charged by connecting it with any computer (both Mac and PC).
I decided to let it have a charge with an AC charger for a bit longer, after 10 minute I did the Reset again, this time a sign of folder with exclamation mark showed up after the Apple sign, and again could not get recognized by a computer.
I changed my mind, and put the iPod into disk mode
Putting iPod into disk mode
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
Instead of connecting with a PC, I plug it with my Mac using a Firewire cable, it did not response, so I switched the cable to an USB, interestingly, the iPod got recognized and a window pop up indicating that the iPod needed to do a Restore. Therefore I clicked “Restore”.
After that I left the iPod with the ac charger overnight, and it finally recovered

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