Streaming Netflix app on an older iPod Touch?

Hi all you iPod gurus,
I've got an iPod Touch 2g running iOS 4.2.1.  I've been running the Netflix streaming app without major issues for a couple of years (version 1.4.0, build 930547).  In the last couple of weeks, it has just quit working.  I open the app and it goes to a gray screen after a few seconds.  I've deleted the app and restored it from a backup version, I've restored the entire iPod.  No change.  Any suggestions?  Has anyone had a similar issue? 
Some additional information:  I tried the same version of the Netflix app on my son's newer iPod Touch with the same result.  Then I updated the app on that iPod to the latest version and that newer version worked fine.  This leads me to believe that the problem could be an issue between the older version of the app and the Netflix servers.  But updating the app is not an option for me; the newest Netflix app requires iOS 5, which my iPod does not support.  I'm a little bit frustrated, and I'm wondering if it's just my iPod or a more general issue.
Any help would be appreciated.  Even a simple, "I've got an iPod Touch 2g and my Netflix app runs fine" would be helpful.  Thanks much.
Steve

Devground,
I have a second gen ipod touch with ios 4.2.1 and am able to watch netflix (version 2.2.1, 9/21/12, 8.3 MB) on it as of today, December 1, 2012. I don't know if it's stable, but it's running right now. I recently had difficulties with the app when I tried to upgrade to the version that requires ios 5. Though I hadn't used it in a while, so I don't know if it was the attempted upgrade that caused my trouble.
I also don't know what ultimately fixed my problem and don't recall exact symptoms as it took a while to troubleshoot (slow os on this hardware) and attempted many things. However, I made sure that if I even had the new Netflix app that it did not overwrite the 2.2.1 version in itunes. I backed up 2.2.1 just in case.
Then, I deleted the old version from the ipod and reloaded it through itunes. It took a couple of times of doing this, disconnecting and power cycling the ipod before i was able to successfully login again.
Not sure what even did it in the end. After doing all the uncertain steps above and all but giving up, I read lllaass's comment on another post that suggested syncing, which I did after the uncertain steps above, and it finally worked. Unfortunately, I can't really answer specific questions on the method I used, but I'm sure that other 2nd gen users can confirm that they are also still able to use Netflix on their touch.
I hope this makes some sense - sorry it's so vague on details.
Good luck. And thanks lllaass, I guess!

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