Stuck on Align Screen step

[snarfman]

I've been having problems with my touchscreen. Previously it would stop responding until I would forcibly run the stylus around the edge of the screen, especially in the bottom right corner. It would also run into alignment issues pretty often, but I could fix that by going to the align screen utility in settings. Recently the screen alignment has been off to the point where stuff at the top pretty much is right on, the lower left isn't bad, but the lower right corner of the screen cannot be selected. Even a tap on the very lower right corner will register about 1.5cm above it. When I go to the align screen utility, my tapping will send the target around the screen like it's going to work, but then it will just keep going back to the beginning like I messed up. I could get out of this screen by turning the power off and back on, but it wouldn't fix the alignment issue. I got fed up today and just hard reset to try to fix it, but now I can't get past the align screen step at the beginning of setup. So now I can't use the phone at all. I've tried to use a business card to clean out the edge of the screen. I got a good bit of junk out, and it looks clean around the edges, but still no better. I've tried different roms and nothing has changed. I'm currently using BigJ's 1.1. I've searched around and found no real helpful advice. If there's something else I can do, that would be great. I loved this phone when it used to work. I did get it off eBay about a year ago, so I don't think I can take it into the Verizon store. Any help is greatly appreciated, since I'm currently without phone service.

Thanks,
Justin