Sporatic response from a 4gb 2nd gen nano

I've had my green nano for about six months. I've had no issues with it until now. All of a sudden, it stopped responding to any command. Menu, Next, Previous, pause, and the click wheel did nothing. So, next, I tried restarting it.. no luck. I then resigned to restoring it. Even after I restored it, it made no sign of recognition. It was stuck on the language select page. So then I tried recharging it on my dock over night. It seems to have helped because the I regained temporary but poor control over the iPod. The clicker made an absurd amount of clicks per each movement and I could open any menu unless I held down to select button and moved the hold button right, arming it in hold mode. Then I could see the Settings folder for example, but it was on hold. The second I took it off of hold, it exited the folder.
I have a suspicion that the iPod's menu button might be stuck down and that is why I can't open any subfolders for more than a 1/2 second.
This is extremely frustrating and I hope that there is help for the iPod.
Thanks in advance,
Cheateate

I would send it in for service since nothing you've tried worked here, http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod/

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