My Ipod Photo burns battery life while it is off...

Recently I bought an Ipod Photo(40GB) and every time I turn it on after it being off for at least a day, the battery is always dead. Even if it was completely full from the last turn off.
Just to clarify, I turn off my Ipod by holding the play button
for a couple seconds until the screen turns black(making sure there isn't a song playing, of course). Then I put the hold switch on, and that's it. However, like I said above, the next time I turn it on from it being off for more than a day, it is dead. As if it had been sitting there while on. I have tried resetting multiple times, and nothing.
Please help, this is very frustrating.
Ipod Photo Windows XP Pro
Windows XP Pro

It is used, but there is something that I forgot to say in the post; it isn't that the battery isn't good, because I can take it off the dock with full battery life and listen to it for several hours at a time(with normal battery loss, more than half left), the problem is it still burns while off. I am turning it off correctly right?(method in original post)
Short version: battery works great. Just dies while being off for a day or so.
Note: It dies with a regular message, "No battery life
remains, charge me."
Thanks for the help anyways, any ideas?

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