Ipod Mini Problem

Hi everyone, I hope someone can help me. I bought a new Ipod mini on saturday, and I had to take it back because it was dead..they swapped it for a new one, and everything was going okay..until today.
I was listening to my Ipod on the way to work, and the battery drained and the Ipod turned off. No problem I thought..I got home after work, and plugged it back into my pc to charge.
However, the screen showed a large STATIC battery icon..and now it won't do anything.
I've reset it by toggling the hold button and pressing the select and menu buttons together..but all it does is show the apple icon and then go dead.
Can anyone suggest anything? Is this one broken too? I'm getting through Ipod's like slices of cake LOL

Stephen, Welcome To Apple Discussions.
The large Battery Icon Is Not Offensive , Trust Me.. You Simply Need to Make a Reset While it's Still connected...Even if you don't see the APPLE.
Then You let it COnnected for a while.. (about 10 minutes).. and You Unconnect Your ipod.. and the apple Should Appear.
The Large battery shows Up because there is Not Even a Smidge Of Power to run the iPod while connected to computer..
Your iPod Is Nether Broken, Nether Need For replacement.
Good Luck.
M.
PS: Think about Setting Off Some Power Drainer utilities .. Here's a Link about the subject :
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61434
And another one that May Be usefull:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60941

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