Creative MuVo TX FM broken

We bought this little MP3 player in March, and now the damn thing has stopped working. The power switch seems to be faulty, and the battery life has dwindled dramatically.
Now we wait for 4 weeks while the thing gets repaired. I hope all the Creative Labs players aren't this unreliable. After all, my Apple iPod Shuffle has been working very hard since September last year, and apart from crappy headphones that were replaced, it's doing fine.
While Apple may have paid Creative $100 million in a patent settlement, they appear to be able to make better products.