IPod screen not working / turning itself on and on by itself

Yesterday I took my iPod outside as normal and tried to use the touchscreen to play music. It did not react when my fingers touched the screen. The buttons on the top and the bottom were working normally, but when I could not for example use my fingers to unlock the iPod as it did not react.
About an hour later I could manage to move the 'unlock' button half way across the screen but the top half and the bottom right do not react to my fingers. This morning it keeps doing the same, but now it keeps turning itself on and off and music occasionally plays by itself and the only way I can stop it is resetting it.
Any ideas what I can do?

A corrupted program or a program that is not compatable with your device is doing this. To fix:
To fix this what we need to do is hard reset your device. The instructions to do that is here http://www.palm.com/cgi-bin/cso_kbURL.cgi?ID=887 this tells you how to do all types of resets. Also, what we need to do is rename your backup folder. What this folder is, it hold all your programs from the last time you synced your PC. On your computer go here My Computer--> C drive --> Program files --> Palm/PalmOne--> your hotsync user name --> and right click on your backup folder and rename it to "backup.old" Resync your device to the same user name and you will get all your contacts, calendar, tasks, and memos.
You can install the programs again but make sure they are compatible with the device. Also try one program again and wait 24 hours to see if the same thing happens again. This way you know what program is causing the issue.
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