The Death of Zen

My Creative Zen MP3 player is slowly dying. The volume cannot often be adjusted and the forward and rewind controls are erratic at best. There are several electronic shops in the village, but they won´t touch it with a proverbial large barge-pole. 40GBs worth of quality sounds and downloading going to waste as the installed files seem non-transferable. Aaaaarrrrgggghhh!