is this a bricked phone in this state?

[somu76]

my phone got accidentally dropped today, and ever since I can't get it to respond to me for more than a few seconds upon booting... it was running a 6.1ROM, so I tried to see if I could update the ROM again to clean up the memory, and I tried the 6.5 ROM, but am seeing the same result, where it gets to the inital start screen, and then hangs there...

tried to get back to the original ROM (WM5) after downloading from the link provided by the gurus here, but when trying to run that, I am getting a 101 connection error (using Vista... no XP unfortunately @home)...

Does this seem like a hardware issue that is unfixable or can I get out of this mess? I have the insurance for the phone with Sprint, so am wondering if it can be used (needs to be used?) here....

if anyone can share their wisdom/experiences on this, I would much appreciate it.

Thanks,
somu.