Bloated Battery -- Macbook Death??

Around June 2007, I got a Macbook 13", persuaded by my mac-savvy friends into joining the mac community. To say it was a great change would be an understatement. Unfortunately around June of last year, on a particularly hot summer day, I had my macbook charging while open, it went into sleep mode and then, (if I remember correctly,) it woke up and a dialogue box popped up and then it crashed immediately. Since then, the macbook would not power up, no sounds of gears or any sounds from the machine when trying to turn it on. Tried removing battery, holding down keys while trying to turn it on to reset it, etc.. -- totally bricked. I found out also that I had forgotten to get the extended applecare, so I figured I was S.O.L.
Flash forward, a few months ago, I gave my macbook to a friend to take a look at it, and he noticed that the battery was 'bloaty as f' and mentioned that there was apparently a recall on batteries with this bloated problem. Does anyone think that the bloated battery problem could have caused my macbook to brick itself? If this is the case, is there any chance that Apple would be willing to fix my macbook?
I have to say this situation really ruined the mac experience for me. Which is a true shame because going back to windows has been painful. But at least I've never had a windows machine brick on me unexpectedly. Awwww. I loved my lil macbook! T_T

Depending on how much it expanded, this is a possibility if it flexed the logic board enough to damage something. This is pretty unlikely, but not impossible. You'll need to touch base with Apple in order to find out if your battery was included in the extended battery replacement program (there was no recall). I believe the replacement program only applied to the original Core Duo machines.

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