My iPod won't recharge, register, restore, & it's only 4 days old!

So, I got a nice, new, shiny 5th Gen iPod for my 18th, 4 days ago, and it worked fine, for about two hours. After that, the battery meter was almost empty. I plugged it into the UBS port on the side of the eMac, and, like it had done up until this point, the desktop and iTunes recognised it and the green charge icon appeared. I left it overnight so as it could charge, (the computer set so it wouldn't fall asleep.)
The next morning I wake up to find it hasn't charged, or at least the chage meter hasn't gone up, and it failed to show the charged icon. I left it for another day thinking that maybe becuase it's new it takes longer to charge for the first time.
In the evening I came back to find that it now displays the monotone lightning bolt over a battery icon. As Apple suggested I left it for another half an hour, (in which time I was told it would charge) to find that not only has it failed to do that, but now the bloody computer won't recognise it.
I have tested all the UBS ports and know that they work, and tested the iPod on another, older Mac, with the same results.
The eMac I have been using is less than a year old, an operating system of OS X 3.9 and iTunes 6, which I think is all the standard operating sytems. I've tried restarting the iPod and computer, but niether seem to help. I'm at a loss to what I should do. Am I simply over reacting and this is what all new Pods do, or do I need to consider wrapping it up and sending it back?
eMac   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

I'd definately consider taking it back. If you bought it from a local apple store you can take it there and they'll check it out and probably even replace it if they have the same problems. Your ipod should not be doing this.
goood luck

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