Music won't play - play button flashes ipod touch 3rd gen

Strange thing:
Yesterday, all was fine--music played normally. Today, when I try to play music, the play button (the arrow), just flashes a pause button and goes right back to the play button. No music can be played. It's as if the PLAY button is stuck (?)
Sound from other apps work fine.
Nothing new was downloaded, no apps, no syncs, nothing. Running v. 3.1.3
I have tried toggling various settings, searching the internet for similar issues, but to no avail.
I cannot upgrade versions or restore settings at the moment but I am not convinced that will solve the issue. Why? Because a few months ago, my boyfriend has the same issue! One day it worked and the next day, nothing.
At some point after we figured it is "broken", it began to work again! We have no idea how it magically restarted working. Unfortunately, mine has not magically restarted, so I hope someone in the forums can help. Please post if you have had a similar issue. I need this for my work!!

Basics from the manual are.
Restart.
Reset.
Restore.
Have you tried any of these?

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So basically any time I try to turn the iPod Touch on it will bring up a black screen for a second on the display, fail to boot up to the apple logo, and then shuts the display off.
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Michael

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