My ipod is displaying a wierd screen

My click-wheel ipod has been working good for about 2 years and now it will not turn on without being plugged into a power source. When I do plug it in it gives me the apple logo as usual but then it shows a picture of a file folder with a exclamation mark in a triangle in the corner of the folder. At the bottum of that it gives me this website "WWW.apple.com/support/itunes"
I tried the 5 R's including Restore which the first step only works(after the first step is done it tells me to plug it into an external power source, I do but it still gives me the apple logo then the graphic with the website.) when i tried to plug it back into my computer it says my ipod has been restarted so it needs to be restored

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Hello, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Is the Album Artwork showing up correctly in iTunes? Are you using the latest iTunes Software on Windows & latest iPod Touch Update?
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ 32 bit version
http://support.apple.com/downloads/iTunes8_0_2_for_Windows_64bit 64 bit version
http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/softwareupdate.html
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