Ipod touch.. half dead?

okay, ive had my ipod touch since december, and this is the first time its frozen/not responded... note i havent hacked it... I went to get it last night so i could play it in the car, i pressed the wake/sleep button and the apple icon which normally appears when you turn it on/reset it, appeared. it promptly disappeared about 5 seconds later, not loading the ipod up. This happened a couple of times. i plugged it into the car kit i have to play it in, this also charges the ipod, and pressed the home button. The unlock screen appeared. However, the slider was unresponsive to my touch, but if i double pressed the home button then the music options would appear, however, these wouldnt respond either. Then i held down the wake/sleep button to turn it off so i could reset it, and it came up with the power off slider, which again, didnt respond to my touch, and the screen promptly went to black after 5 minutes.
Currently the wake/sleep button is unresponsive, as is the screen, but the home button still works, so i know the ipod isnt frozen. The computer registers exterior hardware being connected, but because i cant unlock it, i cant connect it to itunes, therefore i cannot reset or restore it....
can anyone help?

Stories like this freak the **** out of me :)).
Now look, if you can`t reset it, the best thing to do, is to put it in DFU Mode ( Device Failsafe Utility ), and the restore it. You do this by pressing both the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button until the iPod displays the Apple logo, and after the logo appears, quickly release the Seep/Wake button, but keep pressing the Home button, do this until the "Connect To iTunes" screen appears.
PS: This will not work with the iPod connected to any dock. I did it when connected directly to computer via the USB wire.

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Yesterday, it just all the sudden shut off. It was low on battery, but it didn't even do it's usual black screen and the loading logo. It just completely shut off to a black screen. I immediately tried to charge it, but to no avail. When I try to charge it, it jst shows the Apple logo over and over as if it's trying to shart back up, but won't. I left it on the charger all night hoping it would resurrect, but that didn't happen either. It won't charge at all. I click the Home button and it shows the Charging bar. All it hjas left is a little red bar at the end. It recognizes that it is plugged into the computer because it has the little lightning strike under the bar that shows that it is indeed charging, or at least trying to charge. When I unplug it, it has the little "plug > lighning strike" logo. It's like it recognizes that it is plugged into a charger, but just won't charge.
I have already tried holding the Home and Power button numerous times, so don't tell me to do that.
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I really just want to get the songs off my broken iPod Touch, so if you know how to do that, then that will be fine as I will most likely buy a new iPod Touch.
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