Stone Plus 2GB unresponsi

I picked up my Stone this evening and instincti'vely held the power button for 4 seconds waiting for it to turn on. Well to my dismay it didn't turn on. I remembered I had fallen asleep with the speaker on last night and I though I would just plug it in and make some dinner.
I plug in, as normal and I don't hear my USB sound. That's odd, the computer doesn't recognize the USB device at all. Try a different port, still nothing. Wiggle the cable, nothing.
I try to find out to to enter "recovery mode" for this device from some of the stickes. I try a number of combination of pressing the Reset button alone, pressing it while pressing the power button, as well as pressing the reset button, power button, and any other button I can find. There is no response from the device at all.
I reconnect the device and disconnect a few more times hopeful to hear the USB "da-ding!" but still there is nothing. I download the MP3 player recovery tool from the site and when it scane it informs me that no compatible devices could be found.
So, I am not sure what happened to the player at all now. I use it off and on for the past 4 months and it has been very reliable. Any ideas?

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