Ipod screen distorts at bottom of screen, possible solution?

my new 30gb ipod screen distorts for no reason at the bottom, what can be done to solve this problem?
compaq Windows XP

If it was new, I would return it to the place of purchase for a refund.
Good Luck!
Rob

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I have HP Pavilion laptop with Windows Vista. After I connected my new iPod – it didn’t show up in My Computer as a new device and in Device Manager it was listed in “Other devices” with a question mark next to it. I already had iTunes installed – it didn’t show up in iTunes. On the attempt to reinstall the driver I had a message that the driver was found but an error occurred while installing it.
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if only this fix worked for windows xp or even 2000 (at my job)
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Hi everyone, I've searched through most of the discussions, which have helped a lot, but haven't had any luck finding a few answers. So here we go.
I am converting about 20 hrs of old home movies to dvd. I want to edit out a lot of the boring scenes so I plan on using iMovie 06. I bought an ADVC 110 to convert the analog to digital (I have been using RCA cables for video but it doesn't give the greatest video quality so I am going to try an S-video cable) and I run it into iMovie 06.
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2-When I have clips in iMovie, where are those files saved on my computer?
3-I plan on making multiple dvds in iDVD. Is there any suggestions on the best way to do this. If I import in DV format and edit in DV format (in iMovie) how long, or how large, can I make the videos before I import them into iDVD so that they will fit on a DVD?
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I am still having all the above issues, regardless of my mac being fully minus third party items. This mac hasn't had any heavy use, or had many applications installed on it ect, there is really no reason for it to be failing. I'd understand if it was old, but it's literally only just passed being 3 years old.
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