Hey my friends 5g 30gb iPod is acting funny, it will only play through the left ear. But when you press down on the headphone "probe" it will play through both ears. I did a hard restart on it but that didn't help also I shot some compressed air down there again no results. To me this sounds like a hardware problem and I would imagine it would have to be replaced any ideas on how to fix this without full replacement, as I am almost positive its Applecare has expired.