The dreaded unhappy face keeps coming back up.

I have a 20GB iPod w/ color display and yesterday, it froze, so I reset it. Then instead of rebooting successfully like it usually does, it gives me this stupid unhappy face on an iPod. So I'll put it on a charger and it repeatedly reboots and again shows the unhappy face. I've tried connecting to my Windows XP computer and that does nothing. iTunes doesn't recognize that the iPod is connected and doesn't display it in the sidebar. When I connect it to the computer, it does the normal cycle of reboot, unhappy face, like the outlet charger, except after it shows the unhappy face, it switches to what looks like a larger version of the batter charging sign. The sign is in the middle of the whole screen, has a lightning bolt on the left and the battery shows that it has a low charge. That picture stays there until I disconnect it. Any suggestions? The iPod is almost 2 years old, did it just die?
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