Odd problem all of a sudden with im510 and Fuze

I just reformatted the player via the ‘Format’ option in the System menu.  It didn’t appear to do anything about the issue i’m having.

Just to be clear, whenever I plug my Fuze into a 30 pin port, the connected screen comes up and stays.  This happens about 75% of the time I plug it in. At work, I have an extra 30-pin cable plugged into a generic AC to USB port adapter and at home I have the same setup at home along with an Altec Lansing im510.  This has happened in all 3 30-pin cables (I have 3 different ones) and the im510.  I’ve had the Fuze since the day they came out, and this just started happening a month or so ago.  The firmwhere only changed once, and that happened a month before I saw this issue creep up.  It’s just very annoying and being a software developer myself, I’m just curious as to how this actually came to be, since the software didn’t change.