Screen froze/wouldn't shut off/restore

I suddenly found myself staring at a frozen screen, with all fonts and images oversized (the green battery icon took up half the screen).
Suddenly iTunes started playing in shuffle mode.
Couldn't shut the phone off because the slide arrow was just off the screen.
Sweet.
Phone is days old.
Did a restore when I got home to no avail, did another one, seemed to have "taken", but all data wiped out.
Is there a way I can get my phone numbers retrieved?
This leaves a huge sour taste....I'm reading lots of other issues on this site about the 3GS.
Hugely important data....lost forever?

I've also got the same problem today, eventually it died of low battery but now it just shows an "angry-sour iPod" and the text "www.apple.com/support", and when i try to charge it it the message "very low battery" shows and nothing happens.
What may be the problem??

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