Ahhh, I dismantled it myself AFTER taking it into Nokia Care, so I figured after having them tell me there was nothing they would do I'd take a crack at it myself.

However, interestingly enough, and I did forget to mention initially, even after being told this wouldn't be covered by warranty mysteriously enough a brand new N900 arrived on my doorstep no more than a week later. So, I assume someone was looking out for me in regards to this. But kind of worrying though considering I wasn't told before hand that this had been arranged.

Really, just looking to see whether there's still some life I can breath into my old (I use this term lossley as I really only had the device for maybe 6 months if that) device. I am thinking because it still works I can use it as a purely dev-device, however the lack of USB interface will inhibit this a little. Haha!

Thanks for your responses!