IPod Classic GUI Itermittenly Freezes

My iPod's GUI randomly becomes unresponsive when I click the wheel. Music/movies continue to play, but pressing any button will not work. The progress bar and time remaining do not update. Except for the fact that the content continues to play, the iPod appears frozen. This typically lasts for about 10 seconds and can occur as often as twice an hour. It does not seem to trigger from any particular click press, it happens with seemingly any action I initiate, except for using the scroll function and play/pause.
When it finally becomes responsive, it plays "catch up", executing some of the commands you entered while it was frozen.
Does anyone know what might be causing this? The last time I experienced such symptoms with an older generation iPod, it died soon thereafter. As this iPod is less that a year old, such a thing happening here would be rather unbelievable.
Message was edited by: Fiercedeity
Message was edited by: Fiercedeity

Ok Mitch 751, I tried your suggestion and reformatted it. I should have tried that in the first place, lol. That seemed to do it. I've been testing it out for several days now and have not noticed the problem return. I'm still wondering what would have caused that, but at least it's gone. Hopefully it doesn't return.
And 2games1, my iPod is the 120GB classic.
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