20th November 2005, 3:14 PM
I have a guess as to what happened. The little plastic nubbin or whatever slipped out of place a bit and couldn't make a solid connection. However, eventually after fiddling with it yourself many times it slipped back into place. It's happened to me before, and seems the most plausible. It is just a bit unsettling that that CAN happen though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)