One Line of Screen not responding

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hi,

I know loads of people appear to be having problems with their touch screens dying after about a year. I have had my P3 for about 16months and the touch screen does appear to be dying but in a different way to how everyone else's has died.

Rather than coners of the screen starting to go mine has broken on a specific 'line' in the screen (the one where shuffle appears on the 'now playing' screen) so i can't click on anything that falls within this band. It happened last night but a simple connect to the computer fixed it but today its gone again and that's not working.

I've reloaded the firmwire and reset it but to no avail. Is this the same thing that everyone else is experiencing or a different problem. Its pretty annoying as a live with my music on shuffle but listen to a lot of audio books to so regularly switch between the two options.

Any suggestions?