An innovative way to "fix" an iPod - drop it from a 3 story height:

You might recall my little bit of fun with my 4th Gen iPod and its fun little trip off my balcony to test out the iFrogz case. For those too lazy to click the link, the gist is that my iPod was already dead from Ye Old Click O' Death, so I decided to give the iFrogz a rigorous drop test... twice, from three floors up. What I hadn't counted on was that the darned thing would start working again following the drops.

Of course, the drop didn't really fix it - but it led him to the diagnosis - go check it out.