Won't charge with USB or iMove Boombox But Will With FireWire

I Have a 4th Gen 40GB iPod the other week it died from having an alarm on so i went to charge it on my pc but it was too dead to charge with my pc. because I don't know where my Firewire power adapter is i hooked it up to my car adapter on the way to work. thus it was charging, but once i got to work i hooked it up to my imove plugged into the ac outlet, it said it was fully charged (i.e. the battery indicator was full and not moving and a lightning bolt showing AC Power) any way an hour later it popped up a massage that says power low must shutdown. it dose the same thing if i'm syncing With the USB cord. i would us the firewire but my firewire port isn't working any more it's not the cable or the computer i tried it on other PC Firewire will charge, & USB won't and says it already is even though it's draining battery not pulling power from the pc. so now i'm trying to re sync my 35GB or so "over 6,000 songs" over USB before my battery dies again. (Yes i Have A Dock) Thanks Apple for a great product that only faults mainly around battery/power issues....

good to know that 3G ipods don't charge through usb - but I still don't understand why an AC adapter wouldn't work. I can't even figure out the charging patern - it seems that when I plug it in through USB it drains the battery, but the battery life varies. One minute it will have full charge, then the next it will turn off and say it is empty, then the next it will have half life, all without plugging it in. Frustrating...

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