Zen Sleek broken, need h

My Zen Sleek isn't working the way it should. I was turning it off and set it down, fifteen minutes later i walked by and noticed it was still shutting down. I pressed the reset button and it reset but when it came to the Creative logo sign it froze. I have been reseting over and over to see if anything else will happen, but it does the same thing every time. Does anyone have any ideas to how I could fix it's
Edit: Actually it now say's, 0 minutes later, that it is rebuilding the library, so I think that's good. Maybe it'll fix itself.Message Edited by Rojo on 03-03-200608:2 PM

Actually it fixed itself so no one post

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