Creative wall adapter broke my Zen Vision:

Okay, I am having a problem.
So I bought the Creative ZEN power adapter for my player, I bring it home, turn my player on and then off and plug it into the adapter expecting the screen to turn on, but it doesn't. I unplugged it to see what the problem was but now the screen won't turn on anymore. So basically my zen's turned off and won't turn back on. I'm suspecting that the DC adapter broke it because I obviously didnt and it like died right after I plugged it in. This is thoroughly upsetting as I bought the official DC adapter and it specifically states that it's for all zens except for the nano and nano plus, and I have a creative zen vision: M, so this really shouldn't be a problem.
Does anyone have any suggestions or insight as to what's going on? This is really upsetting me.

I had a very similar problem with my Vision:M. It worked fine until I tried to use the official creative adapter, and then it would only go to the background screen with the adapter icon in the top right corner. I couldn't actually use the player, and when I unplugged it, I could not get it to turn on again. I tried to reset it, but it would not do anything. I have been able at least to transfer the files from the player to my computer by connecting both the power adapter and the USB cable at the same time, but I still cannot get the player to function as a player. So basically, all I have now is a very expensi've external hard dri've. This is extremely frustrating, and I would also appreciate any advise anyone could give.

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