Zen V Plus, Pointless reset butt

So I'm sitting here with my Zen V Plus that has a broken back button. Now I'm fine with the broken back button, I have all my music on one playlist anyway. But here I am and my record button was accidently pushed, and without my back button i cant leave this screen. So as I scramble to find a way to leave this screen i see this very very small hole and the word "reset" under the hole. After finding the right size needle (most were too big, yea its that small) i push the little button; and can you guess what happens? The player shuts off, so i turn it on to find the same recording screen. Now I can't seem to contemplate a reason to make this button if all it does it do the job of the much much larger button right above it. I was under the impression that the button would RESET my V plus and bring me to main menu. Can anyone tell me if there are any ways to actually reset my player.

The reason for the reset button is to reset a frozen/locked up .mp3 player.
If for some reason your .mp3 player locks up [like computers used to do all the time in the Windows 95 days], the reset 'reboots' your .mp3 player.
On a badly locked up .mp3 player, the On/Off switch won't respond and reset is the only way to get things going again.
I don't have a Zen V Plus, but usually there is a method of getting into Recovery/Rescue Mode.
Follow the steps and run a Disk Cleanup and Reboot when it's finished.
Only Format or Reload Firmware as last resorts, as they are fairly drastic steps.
Disk Cleanup scans your disk and attempts to repair corrupt files. It also resets your .mp3 player to the defaults, so that may get you out of the Recording menu that you're stuck on.

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