My home button is completely unresponsive

For a while now my home button has been sporadically unresponsive - I'd press it a couple times and then it'd work. This morning however, it won't respond at all, which means once I enter an application I can't exit it at all. I can't reboot it by pressing the Home/Wake buttons together either, since obviously the home button isn't working, and I'd rather not restart it every time I want to do something.
I think this is more a hardware problem than anything else and means I might need to get my phone replaced, but it's out of its 1 year warranty period.
I kept dropping it, even with a case on.

I'm confused as to the purpose of your post. This is a user to user technical support forum. Are you asking a question here?
It sounds like you have a hardware failure. Bring your phone in to Apple for out of warranty exchange for $149, or bring your phone to a 3rd party repair shop and get it fixed there.

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iPhone Home Button Not Working or Unresponsive? Try This Fix
- If you have iOS 5 and later you can turn on Assistive Touch it add the Home and other buttons to the iPods screen. Settings>General>Accessibility>Assistive Touch
- If not under warranty Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for:
Apple - Support - iPod - Repair pricing
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Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
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Apple - Support - iPod - Service FAQ
- There are third-party places like the following that will repair the Home button. Google for more.
iPhone Repair, Service & Parts: iPod Touch, iPad, MacBook Pro Screens

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I bought an iPod Touch 16GB in the beginning of june. It was a gift, and has not been in use until yesterday. The home button is totally unresponsive. Pushing the home button will not give any respons at all. Whenever I launch an app, I'm stuck there, until I shut the device off or reset it.
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I still believe this is some sort of software error. I have done everything suggested by Apple to sort out the problem, but nada!
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- Restoring the iPod from backup via iTunes
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to help ensure it is a hardware problem?

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