My iPod is stuck on home screen. Please help.

Okay, so heres what happened. I was downloading an app from the mobile app store and it started acted very weird. While the app was installing, it had the picture of the icon already loaded but it still had the "Installing" bar below it. It was taking forever but after awhile it just shut down and restarted. So after it restarted it just displayed the Apple logo startup screen, but it has been stuck there for three days now. The only way I can keep it from burning the image into the screen is to force shut down by holding the home button and the power button at the same time. I have read about many people having this problem after jail breaking their iPods but mine isn't jail broken. Also, I tried reseting it to factory settings via iTunes but it displays a weird error and says reset error and cant reset. Also, now it locks up iTunes every time I connect it. This is unbelievably frustrating and I hope someone can help me with my problem.

Try this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

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