My iPod Nano 8GB was stuck on "Hold" no matter what I did...

Has your iPod ever been accidentally filled to over-capacity? Mine was. It appeared to introduce some file corruption issues. My iPod was stuck on hold. Period.
A hard Reset would not work:
No result after toggling Hold button and pressing Menu+Select
No result after plugging in a power supply or plugging the iPod in a USB port
Soft Restore did not work
Suffered intermittent sync errors after Restore
Toggling the sync and playlist settings produced some over capacity warnings (Hint this was the culprit)
Even when a synch with a proper amount of content (no error on the Capacity bar) completed, the iPod stayed stuck on hold
Here's what worked for me; I carefully re-wrote *all* content using small amounts of content in *every* data type appearing on the device.
Verify that you have iTunes playlists and PC directories with media to cover each type of data you have ever had on the iPod, e.g., songs, videos, TV shows, photos, Podcasts.
Verify that playlists and directories contain manageable amounts of content (stuff that's quick to sync after a Restore is run).
Verify that you check "Sync" for every data type on the Synch toolbar.
Select "Synch only checked songs and video" on the Summary tab, you might also select "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128kbps AAC"
Run the "Restore" routine and allow the unit to sync with verified settings as established above.
Voila: After the Restore, a Synch and a manual Reset, the lock went away.
I reset the Sync switches for my original content (I verfied it would fit before cutting it loose).

Rainbow -
I've read the thread you linked to above and the only thing I find missing in the saga is any mention of the PRAM battery. If it is depleted (and it would be getting close to depletion if it has never been replaced) it could be causing your problem.
Do you see any strangeness in the time or date displays? That would be a sure sign that the battery is dying. I haven't run into the problem of a bad battery causing constant freezing but it wouldn't hurt to check it out.
As far as temperature effects, the usual pattern of overheating would be a shutdown of the whole computer, a designed-in precaution.
Forgive the battery tutorial if you've already dealt with that possibility.
Schadow
FP iMac 800, 9.2.2/10.1.5; eMac 800, 9.2.2/10.4.6; iMac 266, 8.6 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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