Well. It seems that my I-pod has come back from the dead. Last night I could not make it work, and it just sat there glowing brightly, and not emitting any noise. Nor could I shut it off. After talking with Apple tech, (In India), the determination was that the hard drive had destroyed itself. So much for outsourced labor. I was sitting here in front of my computer and decided to give it one more chance to come to life. I plugged it into the speaker module and lo and behold; the sweet dulcet sounds of Ben Webster playing a most mellow version of My Romance came sweetly flowing from the speakers. I have no idea what did happen to it, but it is running and playing music like always. Go figure! So I can save myself some money and not replace it and go through all the bother of reloading all the music in a new one. Whew!I Now I think that letting it drain down the internal battery must have caused the hard drive to release the lock that it had given itself, and when I plugged it in, it just started right up. Does anybody know if this sort of thing is possible? That is way above my pay grade as to diagnostic possibilities. Whatever it is, that is fine with me. It does probably does indicate that it might be time to think about some future replacement, but at least, not now.
John