New Zen behaving strang

Ok,?I just bought a new creative Zen 4gig, I brought it home, went online downloaded the latest updates and firmware, it was running fine for the first couple of days now it's doing a couple of strange things.
- I put it in lock mode and it wouldn't come out of it, had to leave it alone for awhile then tried again and eventually lock mode turned off. - when I plug anything into it, headphones or the usb adapter the screen flashes like it's going to turn on, and you can hear a crackle in the headphones?- when you turn it on, it's like it's possesed, none of the buttons work, it flips through menus, the volume goes up and down, and randomly flips through tracks. It will do this for the first few minutes the player is on, then finally the buttons start working again and I can use it. I'm not sure how to proceed here, is the unit defecti've, should I take it back? or should I attempt a recovery? anyone else have any of these issues?Thanks

The second thing you mentioned is rather normal Zen behavior it detects headphones to boot player faster. But the other two are not, your player is probably faulty.Message Edited by valdr on 0-20-2008:28 PM

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