Headphone port bro

I liked my creative player so much, always told people how much better it was than IPods and the such but now the headphone jack is broken.
First, I have a Creative Zen Touch and I have tried a few different pairs of headphones and what happens is when they are in and I try to play a song it only comes out of one ear. Let's start with the easy stuff, no it isn't the headphones because they work fine elsewhere and I have tried two pairs, and yes, they are all the way in, I'm 00% sure . Now, if I push down on the bottom of the cord where it connects to the player (down not in further, sorry if this is confusing) it will play from both sides, but ya know, that's annoying to have to do and I keep having to push harder so that obviously means that the sensor or whatever is in there is getting pushed further back. And yes I realize you probably can't help me here but what I would like to know is how I would go about getting that fixed? I have had it for less than a year but no longer have the receipt and I didn't register it (shame on me) so I know it won't be free, but hopefully it won't cost me a new one....oh and by the way I don't have adobe acrobat so I can't read the warranty and stuff that is on the disk.

I just had the same problem today, starting about ten mins ago when i was doing situps, i accidentaly pulled the headphones out of the jack, and when i reconected them only the left channel of the audio worked. I tried different headphones, but it was obviously the machine. if i rotate the headphones a bit and hold them in, the sound is full again. So i think i might just replace the headphone jack myself, Its like a two dollar part at radioshack, and i just ordered someone elses 30 gig version of mine off ebay that was broken with harddri've problems to replace any spare parts that i may need on mine.
that is, unless my warenty will allow for a replacement without reformatting the harddri've. I'd hate to have to take a screw driver to my device this early in the game though. Ive only had it 62 days.

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