I suppose that I'm a retard. No way to do this without being in the phone application. Which is obviously impossible if the phone won't boot.
Sorry.
Off the top of my head... I once had a computer that had gotten a corrupt MBR and nothing I did (even linking to another computer) worked. What did work was when I removed the HD and had a friend look at it using a Linux machine. I wonder if a Linux box could establish a connection- at least enough to be able to flash the ROM? Probably not, but just dreaming...
