Headphones no longer detected by iPhone 3GS

Hello,
I got an iPhone 3GS about two weeks ago, and it's had no issues until today. I was listening to a podcast before lunch. I paused it, removed heaphones, and went to lunch (during which the phone stayed safely in the belt-clip case). Came back from lunch, and now the audio plays from the phone speaker even if the headphones are plugged in. I've tried the following:
reboot iphone
blow out headphone jack with compressed air
test with multiple pairs of headphones
plug/unplug headphones multiple times (saw this as a proposed "fix" in another thread)
verify that it's not just podcasts or music, all sound will only play from phone speaker
when headphones are plugged in, used volume buttons to verify that a speaker icon appears, indicating that no headphones are detected
Do I really have a hardware failure on my hands this soon? The nearest Apple store is over three hours away, so that's not an option.
Thanks in advance

what did the Apple guys say? This just started happening to me on Friday. Help!

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