Nandi at the phone store wants to try resetting the phone to factory defaults to try to clear up my problems with the v400 being confused about its open vs closed state, despite my very convincing arguments that the problem was hardware related. He did enter a trouble ticket in Cingular’s system, so if it continues to exhibit those irritating behaviors, the warranty people will have some history of complaints on the issue so they won’t think I’m just trying to get a new phone out of it.
The ipod has also been resurrected, though I didn’t do anything except leave it plugged in to AC power for a few hours. Should look in to replacing the battery?