Ipod locking up continuously

Hi
I had to restore my ipod a couple of weeks ago because it wouldn't sync to iTunes.
It was working fine until friday where it started to lockup when changing songs, so Im clicking next and its just not changing song, the current song stays playing. The same applies to pausing and turning it off.
I can force the Ipod to restart, then thats about it, I might get a few songs before it does it again.
I can hear and feel that the harddrive is clicking, which maybe sugests theres a problem with it? And its also drains the battery. It just drained the battery from full in about an hour while this was going on.
Its fine synching with Itunes, infact I synced it just last night without a problem.
So is the Ipod dead? Or can I do something to fix it?
Thanks

You can try restoring and resyncing again, but it sounds as if it will need service. One other possibility is it is having problems with a corrupt song or songs. Is there any pattern to which song it is having the problem with?

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