My iPod (one of the originals - those very first 5 gig models) appears to be quite sick. It's smelling like a hard drive issue. Now she's looped on boot and won't even get to the internal disk verification mode. It might just be that there's not enough battery life left. I don't know.
Hopefully it turns out OK. The warranty has long expired and I didn't get any extended option. On the upside, I might end up with one of the new ones. On the downside, I can't afford anything like that right now.
But once you've added an iPod to your life, it's surprisingly difficult to go without one.