My iPod is possessed by the Devil (seriously)

I need exorcism advice. It would freeze. The battery drains right after charging then when reset a few minutes later is full green. Sometimes its just on 0:00 and the songs don't start.
Then the sound comes only out of the right ear and then just the left ear and now no sound at all.
My 14 yr old nephew went to settings and saw that it didn't recognize the headphones and there were some failure messages.
It hasn't barfed yet but I wonder if anyone had any ideas before I have to spring for a new one... because tuneless is depressing Thanks...

I think I've fixed this. I think the problem was that the ipod had updated itself but I was still using itunes 7.1. When i updated to 7.2, i could copy all my purchased music to my shuffle. Some of the new features on the ipod sw aren't incorperated for the 1st generation, but everything is working.
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