[Jeremiah Johnson]

I had two iPods that did this. The first and original one, 11 months after I purchased it. The first replacement one 11 1/2 months after recieving it. Both under warranty. One was on it's own. The second one was from my brother throwing it accross the room and it landed on the corner edge of the coffee table right on the clickwheel. Good bye HD. Luckily my mom works in the Warranty department at John Deere so she knows how to word things correctly because they most definitely wouldn't have taken it back if I had simply told the truth. I think the conversation would have went something like this, "My brother threw... *dial tone*" Yup. So I'm on my third one. It has many scratches and dents. Even a gigantic scratch down the screen from a Long John Silver's booth in Muscatine, IA, 7th from the door I believe.

But if it's out of warranty, replace it. That's your only hope that I know of. I did try taking the cover off of my mini but you need a special tool. Looks like special snap ring plyers but I'm not sure.