If your iPod stalls do you mean like freeze? Like you can't anything at all but let the battery run out?
Well if that happens all you have to do is hold the MENU and middle button together for about 10 seconds and it will reset.
I think it knows itself. I really am not sure. I do thought hate how when I plug it in to my PC, it comes up as a camera. It always can recognize it as both.
The closest iPod to the iPod Touch is the iPhone. The iPhone has all of the things that an iPod Touch has, but a iPod Touch doesnt have a phone *EDIT* I think it is the Wi-Fi iPad, because it is just...
You cant convert it from your computer to your ipod unless you buy it on itunes. If you get it on itunes on your ipod, when you sync it, it will go on itunes