Well, I'm always careful around power (okay -- anything bigger than a 9v battery ), which is how it got damaged in the first place, as I was holding a cable waaaay far from the metal bit on the end, it got bendy all of a sudden and slapped down on the case.

Really, I imagine that there is one part in there that's fried, but I don't know what it is. I may just be asking how to check components, but I don't really know.