Ipod nano battery dies in minutes

Today I took my Ipod off the USB connector and the battery was full. After just minute or two the battery was almost empty although I didn't even play music or anything. I tried just again, I charged the nano and took it off the USB and after a minute it was empty. Just couple of days ago it worked fine and the battery lasted for days.
What's going on? Is my nano dead in least than two years??

It is only bad to run your battery all the way down
if you then leave it discharged for a long time --
many hours or days.
As I mentioned, details of all this are on my web
site.
Thanks for the help. I were just on your web page and it seems that I've used the battery just the way you recommend. I never let it run completely or even near empty.
Now I've listened to couple of tunes and the battery usage seems to be quite normal. So I really hope that this was some temporary software bug or something.
BTW if it ends up that my battery is already dead I'll never buy another iPod. There's been so much disappointments with it. For example I bought it so early that I didn't know that you can't put it in your pocket like you have done with your mobile phone for ten years without getting a single scratch. But that an another thing

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