My iPod Nano is crazy!

Hi!
I have a 3 month old 2g nano. Quite often I will be listening to it happily, when I decide that the song I am listening to is not what I want. So I hit the menu button, and try to scroll to pick another song. The nano scrolls, but just keeps going and going and going, and acts very crazy (selecting wrong song, no play/pause control, flipping through songs by itself when in the songs's view {meaning the view you get when you select a song} and generally not responding). I have tried to reset it (hitting 'enter' and 'menu', or whatever the key combination is as I can't remember now). The iPod does its little thing where the screen blacks out and then shows the Apple symbol, like it should, then continues this strange behavior after it finishes awakening. I reset it three or four times when it gets in its crazy mode, and once the screen totally blacked out and then there was colored lettering in a menu format. It seemed to be a deep, dark and buried operating system menu that I had accidentally opened. When reset yet again, it returned to normal.
When I turn it off and leave it for a few days, it acts normal again. I have also tried getting all the songs and stuff off the iPod and totally reseting it, from iTunes.
Does my iPod need to be replaced? Or is this just an operating issue?
Windows XP
Windows XP

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