IPod Did Something I Had Never Seen

This morning I was going to school, took my iPod Video and turn on the hold button. Latter I turn it on, everything was fine in till I was going to turn in it off. It just wouldn't turn off. I try to reset it, the Apple logo came, but nothing happened. I pulled it to my computer then unplugged it. To my surprise, my iPod was working like the 1st generation iPod! It was in black and white. I press the play button, but it did nothing. I waited for about five minutes and then the apple logo came up and it came back to normal and stared working fine.
Does anyone have any idea why this happened?
iBook Mac OS X (10.1.x)

That is crazy. I have not seen anything like it.

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