IPod Classic and iHome, alarm feature is not available!

Question

yeah, the most important feature to the ihome (even the latest version, iH8) is not available with the new ipods. i know mine works because i used to have the 30gb video.
here are my troubleshooting specs:
scenario 1:
-set the alarm for a minute later than current time.
-set 'alarm 1' which is the ipod alarm. it is supposed to wake up the ipod and play music (whatever was on pause before shut down, or plays the first song).
-when alarms wakes, it merely wakes up the ipod, but does not play music.
-it does seem to try to play the music, since the backlight comes on. it also says 'now playing' at the top status bar. it stays in the menu, has the name of the song and album artwork on the right (new menu style), but still does not play the music. luckily, ihome has a back up alarm for when it doesn't sense music and just beeps.
scenario 2:
-set alarm, and just paused it rather than powering down the ipod.
-it works! but remember the ipod shuts down automatically after a couple mins.
-scenario 3:
-set alarm on ihome AND ipod.
-hard to sync becaues times on ihome and ipod are off. if ihome doesn't sense the ipod's alarm in a couple seconds, it beeps.
solution anyone?
already did feedback to ipod. ihome is sold in apple stores, so both companies need to do some fixing. they need to let their associates know about this, very misleading.
help me out if you can.
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Answer 1

I'm in the same boat as well. I have an IH5 and have experienced the same problems. Hopefully a firmware update from Apple will resolve this but my gut is telling me that we will need to purchase a new iHome model.