Meep! Need help - ipods freezing!

My new ipod nano 4gb has just frozen on me with full battery, and now i cant do anything with it. I dont know how to turn it off, it wont connect up with my pc so i cant do anything with it... the background LED lighting wont even turn off. Please help!!!

wow this same thing is happening to me
i will be listening to my ipod and i'll usually put it on shuffle when this happens and it just freezes so then i restart it and the icon with the folder and exclamation mark comes up. so i have to constandtly charge it so it fixes it...for only like 3 days. so i tried restoring it and now i can't get my songs back on my ipod without it freezing!! someone please help!!
Windows XP
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