IPod seems to be dead, strange symptoms

Saturday I'm driving around and I hit the play button on my iPod (an older one, probably 5 years old, 20 gig Classic-style). No music. I look down, and it's flipping through the songs: the song title/band/etc will be on the screen for 1-2 seconds, then off to another in a random order.
I do a reset, I do every reset I can, I do the "flip into disk mode" reset. In iTunes I tell it to reset to default. Now it won't power on, it's showing the icon to plug the AC adapter into the wall. Sadly, I don't have an AC adapter, so I can't do that. I seem to recall there were specific instructions to get past that icon, but I can't find them. I briefly got it into menus and all the music seemed to be gone, which is OK, I can load it easily enough.
So now I've got a spiffy-looking paperweight (my wife bought me the Flying Spaghetti Monster skin for Xmas!). Any suggestions? I'm going to go by Best Buy over lunch and buy an AC adapter, I'm also going to try plugging it into a speaker cradle.

Yeah, you'd think a car charger would work too...
have an URL for a program that would read/write the play lists on my iPod
Are you trying to put playlists on the iPod? That's a function of iTunes, if you use sync instead of manual loading of songs.
If you are trying to take playlists off the iPod onto the computer, I have used a program that can do so
http://www.zeleksoftware.com/liberator.htm
but it is not free ($25).

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