Ipod won't play any songs

Ok, had this problem for a couple of week's now and am at my wit's end on it. My 5th Generation video Ipod will not play anything. With both songs and videos, I select one and it shows the play icon but just sits there with the time at 0:00 almost as if it were paused. I can fast forward through the song but wherever I tell it to play it just sits there. No sound or anything.
The weird thing is that I can play the songs off of my Ipod in Itunes or hooking it up via USB to another device like my xbox 360 just fine. It's just the Ipod itself that won't play anything.
I am using the latest version of Itunes and have tried both resetting and completely restoring my Ipod several times, all with the same result.
Has anyone else run into this or have another solution that might help me?
Thanks.
PC Windows XP

I had my ipod little over 2 years and now it will only charge!!!
the songs dont play at all on my ipod and it makes a weird sound when it wants to play then after a while of skipping songs it wont play and just freezes..
When i come to restoring the setings on the computor it just says that it is being used by another application and wont allow me to restore..
any suggestions?
would be much appreciated x

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