Curve is messed up

Hey guys,
I've had my curve for quite some time now and just a few days ago it decided to crap out on me. The phone "works" but I can't work anything on the phone. The trackball scrolls while the screen is on but I can't click and the keyboard doesn't work. I've tried doing many things with the battery in and out with no success. As it sits I'm missing about 50 messages and 10 phone calls so it's pretty important I get it back up and running.
I've tried using the guides on how to fix it for the windows desktop manager but have had no success. Does anyone have any experience with this on the Mac OS?

Dear Eric,
I have Photoshop/Bridge CS3 and Camera Raw Version 4.5.0.175 on Windows XP (SP2).
To "see" tone curves I launch Bridge, navigate to a folder, double-click a raw or DNG file and get the ACR window.
In the ACR window, I click on the "Camera Calibration" tab and navigate through the various Camera Profiles.
For each profile, I click on the "Tone Curve" tab and view both the "Parametric" and "Point" curves.
For canon 5D Mark II DNG files there is always a "Medium Contrast" Point Curve, under every camera profile. I do not have a Canon 1Ds Mark III, but I have downloaded a sample raw file and converted it to DNG. For this DNG I also see a Medium Contrast Point Curve under every profile.
For my Canon 20D and Canon 1Ds raw or DNG files the Point and Parametric curves are flat under every camera profile.
When I downloaded the latest DNG converter and DNG Profile Editor, I'm reasonably confident I also downloaded and installed the most current camera profiles.
For Canon 5D2 files I see the following profiles: Adobe Standard, Camera Faithful, Camera Landscape, Camera Neutral, Camera Portrait, and Camera Standard, in that order.
For the Canon 1DS Mark III image I see all those profiles, plus ACR 4.4 and ACR 4.3
For Canon 20D files I see all those profiles, plus ACR 4.4 and ACR 2.4
To make sure I'm not picking up any presets, I have invoked the pop-up menu in ACR and selected "Reset Camera Raw Defaults". Then, for each file viewed in ACR I checked the pop-up menu again to make sure "Camera Raw Defaults" was checked.
And a reminder, all this was after I had created a number of custom profiles from Macbeth Color Checker images using the DNG Profile Editor. Those custom profiles created a problem with Bridge previews, so I removed all of them before viewing Point Curves as described above. Still hoping to get some feedback on the Bridge preview problem I described in this message:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bb6a869.59b790c8

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