Ipod Touch keeps crashing - can't open any apps

I have a 4th generation iPod Touch that is barely over a year old.  About a week before the warranty expired, the power button quit working.  I arranged to send it in for repair but was hesitant because when I sent my nano in, I received a refurbished one that quit working properly a few weeks after the 90 day warranty expired.  I really didn't want to get a refurbished Touch so I decided to live the problem.
Now, suddenly, after working fine all day, all my apps keep crashing - I can't even use the settings app to try and activate the assistive touch (I read that this might help me resolve my problem).
Since the power button is broken, is there anyway to do a reset? 
As an aside, ths problem with the power button breaking seems to be widespread.  It really ticks me off to spend a few hundred dollars on an item only to have it break within a year.  I think there should be a recall and Apple should replace the obviously defective iPod Touch with brand new ones. 

Ended up plugging it into itunes where I updated to the newest version.  After about 1/2 an hour of doing all the updating, install and synch, it is working fine.
I'm still frustrated about the broken power button.  I am going to try to collect data on this issue just to show apple it's a problem they need to address.

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