@inkautomaton wrote:
Both of your solutions would work. I think I’m just going to take it back to the retailers and get a replacement.
Then again I hear all this about batteries becoming easily detached. >.>
And yet my sister has a 8GB Sansa (not a clip) and it’s been the washing machine. it works perfectly fine. Talk about tough build (and weak build concerning the clips+).
That was only the very early original Rev. 1 Clips many, many moons ago. Not the Rev. 2 or very recently released Clip+. I wouldn’t worry about that issue. 
