dude, alternatively,
you can buy a small bouquet of flowers for her and cook a meal for
her.I'm sure she will be more touched by that.Other gifts can also
be nice, a small chocolate set with some products from Crab Tree
& Evelyn packed in a box can also be a good birthday
pressie.
if your hell bent on a gift and mp3 player to be precise, go for a
non Apple product.Try not to get refurbished products as gifts. The
players are usually defect products being repaired and put back on
sale again.
My colleauge once ordered a refurbished iPod player (for himself),
only to see scratches on the LCD & serveral deep scratches on
the back of the player.
Have you tried looking at Samsung,Creative,iRiver for possible
solutions ?