I just got a 10gb iPod, and it's been a complete nightmare so far. By no means am I a computer rookie, never had major problems with hardware or software until now.

Anyway, since I read the review on the site, I stupidly assumed that my iPod came nearly charged to capacity, but what happened was that I uploaded a few dozen files to it, and before I managed to disconnect, the battery went dead and forced me to disconnect from my PC, so now when I try to use the player with the AC, I get that hideous fold/ exclamation screen and nothing else even after resetting.

So, I just left the player charging for over an hour, or at least I thought that it was recharging, except when I unplugged it from the AC and tried to do a restore on my laptop (which doesn't feed power to the iPod through the Firewire cable), the low battery indicator still showed up! Apple claims that the battery recharges to 80% in an hour, when in reality it hasn't even charged to 5% :rolleyes:

How in the world do I even know if the battery is recharging? Remember that I can't access even the menu GUI at this point because of the crash, so all I see is the Apple logo followed by the folder/ exclamation warning whenever I press a button.

Now I know I should have gotten the 15gb model instead. That way I can charge the thing and still use it.