Year Old 4G 20GB simply will not charge - battery issue already?

I've had a 4G ipod for a year now which charged with both the USB cord to my laptop and the firewire cord to the AC adapter until yesterday.
Once before I ran the battery low enough that it wouldn't mount on the computer and I got the battery with exclamation point icon.However it did take a charge from the AC adapter. This time the icon showed for a second and then completely died. I have not been able to get the ipod to mount or charge on the laptop (or another computer's USB port) or been able to charge from the AC adapter.
I followed Apple's troubleshooting (including waiting over 30 minutes for the ipod to recognize the charge from the AC adapter, but it refuses to turn on at all, and I can't get it to reset. I use the Ipod a lot, but not nearly enough to go through the estimated 300-500 charge cycles to deplete the battery.
Any thoughts?

Try hooking it up to the AC adapter and leave it to charge overnight. If it is still unresponsive the next morning, I'd start looking around for a Apple service tech.
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