welcome to the world of the classic....
check the firmware - settings - about - click a couple of times and it should come up.
the newest one is 1.1.2 and is it a lot better than the one that shipped with.
i use an evo skin cover with mine and it suffered a lot from slow response times. with the new firmware its a lot better. still not up to my old 4G ipod but there or thereabouts.