well, if you can manage to make it out to not being your fault, there might be a chance to send it to Sony for repairs under your warranty(no telling what version you'll get though)
A similar thing happened to me a long time back, and a thread about it is here if you want to read it
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=8646
or long story short, i broke my lcd screen by dropping it, and managed to send it to sony, getting a new one back for free(except S&H and it was a 1.51)
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