Ipod Flashing Screen

I am traveling across Europe and the IPod is one of my best friends until last night when I got back to the hotel and tried to turn it on and I was greeted with a screen whcih flashed different colours (in what I think is a random order). The Ipod wasn't connected to a power source or a computer so I wouldn't think that there would be any reason for it to fail like this.
I am still able to turn the backlight on and off - but it won't play any sounds at all.
Thanks for any help.
p.s. I have all of my Europe photos stored on my Ipod and I am really worried about losing all of them so if there is any option other than restoring the Ipod that would be preferable.
Fraser

If you can't conduct all the 5R's I suggest you have a look at "Tune Tools" I have used it on occasions with some success:
As well as being a great backup tool Tune Tools has loads of other handy and useful utilities:
http://www.valusoft.com
Tune Tools for iPod (PC/Mac)
Tune Tools for iPod: Easily perform back-ups, transfer songs, videos and podcasts, instantly recover lost songs and files, clean-up and sync your iPod library, detect and fix problems, back-up and restore media and view and edit song information with this robust software.
System requirements:
PC
Windows® 2000/XP
500MHz processor
128MB RAM
100MB free hard drive space
CD-ROM drive
Working USB 2.0 or FireWire connection to iPod®
Mac
OS X (10.1.5) or higher
G3 400MHz processor
128MB RAM
100MB free hard drive space
CD-ROM drive
16-bit color, 800x600 screen resolution
Mouse, keyboard

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