IPhone 3GS won't turn on or charge....

Hello,
My Mrs got home from work today and thought her battery was dead so plugged in her iPhone, an hour later and still not turning on!!
It's stuck on the red battery with lightening sign underneath.
It's a 3GS - Optus 3.01 not jailbroken, bought from Telechoice in Westfield Eastgardens, Australia in June just after launch.
I've tried to hold down home and on/off buttons and it just re-boots into the same mode. I also tried connecting to the Mac and re-booting as i found through google this worked in other cases.
No joy though, looks like i'll have to take it back, do you reckon i should take it to the Apple shop in the city or back to the place of purchase? Or do you have any other ideas to get it to work?
Thanks in advance eggs
EDIT: It's just suddenly switched on and beeped in to life whilst whilst attached to the iMac after i posted this, please delete the thread (how strange)
Message was edited by: euaneggs

To all those who still have this problem, the following procedure might help you.
A friend of mine who has one of the early models of 3GS with OS 3.0 running had same problem.
This is what I did to fix it.
1. Plugged in the phone to Computer, the screen showed up with empty battery.
2. Held Home+Power button the phone blinked released Power button but still held the home button. iTunes recognized the phone and stated phone in Recovery MODE.
3. Clicked restore to the latest version of the OS, as soon as the iTunes rebooted the phone to process the restore disconnected the phone. Did a restart, and wallah, the phone started fine.
If the second part of the process doesn't work for some people try switching the mute button to on or off. As couple of times the phone wouldn't boot to Recovery Mode.
Note: I had my computer speakers on so every time i could hear that the USB is connecting to a device or something like that. Also, when the phone booted in Recovery Mode i had a black screen so the only way I knew if it was in Recovery mode was because I had iTunes ON.
Hope it helps some people.
And please ignore my grammar, English is not my native language.
Regards;

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