Bricked my phone.. can you guys help!!

[somu76]

hi,
I tried to make the leap today and get the ROM updated, so went to ppckitchen.org, got the buildOS, updated it to the latest, and used it to build a new ROM.
Once I got the build completed, it prompted for the flashing, and I connected my phone and started it..It gave me my current settings and pointed to the upgrade version, but when I clicked next, it gave a message that there was a device connect error (it was connected to the same USB the whole time), and my phone ended up in the Serial/USB screen.. tried a Hard Reset to the factory defaults, but it stayed at that screen..

so, now I got the original OEM ROM from here (thanks for that), and am running it now.. it basically is stuck at "Stage 1: Updating Radio. Please wait..." message for the last 15 minutes now... is this normal? Can you guys please help me get my phone atleast back to WM5? Any other options I can try?

My OS is Vista 32-bit if that makes any difference.. the phone is showing a message of Upgrade, Radio Stack, Please Wait on 3 lines...

Please let me know,
somu.