I think the screen froze and went all black and sort of nothing can change it. It happened to my little sister, or so she claims, when she got her classic, but she says you just have to wait. Which I did and now when I woke up, it told me to load it, which I am doing right now.

Also, iTunes says that there's this new program around that you can install that checks for errors or something, but my sister has a theory that it wipes out everything you have on your iPod, is that true?