Iphone 3G overheated when charging - no longer charges

Hi Everyone
I had an incident last week where I went to stick some charge into my 3g phone before bed so that I could set my alarm etc for the morning. After 10 minutes I picked the phone up and it was pretty much too hot to touch, I later found a sliver of paper that was in the connector which was all burnt which has given me major cause for concern.
Since the incident I was able to use the phone to listen to music on the train to work however it has not taken charge on any charger apart from one in my local O2 store.
They tried both the charger I had charged on and one in their store, my cable and charger did not work wheras theirs charged immediately.
I have tried buying a brand new cable, new 3rd party charger and also now tested on my sister in law's 3g cable and mains charger and none of these have shown the phone to be taking any charge. I have also tried charging via my usb 2.0 port directly from my PC and there should be no issues with poser on there with a 700w PSU.
Any suggestions on how to proceed are welcome as I am now out of ideas.
Thanks

My 3g has just started doing this in the last two weeks. I usually have to do a reset on it to bring it out and even then it can take a while. There was a few times I had to let it completely discharge and then when plugged in it would reboot. It is doing this now about once or twice a week. Nothing is different on the phone and everything is pretty much off do to the I/OS 4 disaster. I have really like this phone until the problems with the O/S and now this. Wish there was a solution out there.

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