Congradulations! Welcome to the dead bookport club! Your membership is
completely free for the first year!
Actually, this business about bent battery contacts is grately exagerated.
It probably could happen I suppose but has nothing to do with your problem.
You can try removing the flash card from your unit for a few minutes and
then reinserting the batteries. The unit will come up without a card when it
is working properly. I'm sure Larry and company and Springer have some idea
what is going on but they aren't saying. When I change batteries I have my
goodluck rabbit's foot handy and avoid the DEF command and so far there
hasn't been another problem.