Whacked out battery switches off to early

My 2nd gen ipod mini has been acting really weird recently. When the battery gets to about a third fill it will just randomly switch off with the low battery icon and message on the screen then when i press the select button it will come on again but will switch off again. This may happen several times but then after about 3 or 4 times resetting it it will start to play like normal and the battery icon will go up again to a third fill and it will play for about another 3 hours then the whole same thing might happen again. where i have to reset it several times to play again.
I have tried restoring but it doesn't do any thing.
I sent my ipod into apple but they sent it back saying that it met all the specifications.
How can this be true there products are so crap, everyone i know has problems with their ipods.
Can anyone help me.
compaq   Windows XP   ipod mini

- reset, several times
- update the firmware
- calibrate the battery and the battery meter

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