RuggedCircuits

My Netduino (just arrived today!) worked for a while but now I can no longer deploy any applications to it. The white LED is on and Windows recognizes the Netduino as a USB device, so it looks like the processor is for the most part alive. The symptom is that in Visual Studio 2010 Express the status line says "Preparing to deploy assemblies to the device" but nothing ever happens. The little deploying icon at the bottom of the status bar animates continuously but no progress is ever made. This goes on for a few minutes until I press the reset button on the board and/or disconnect the board. Visual Studio doesn't like any of this and basically becomes unresponsive, but that's besides the point. I did try one hardware modification, wiring the 3.3V pin to the AREF pin. I'm pretty sure I didn't mess that up. Even when I undo that modification I still have a board that won't accept new programs. Anything I can do or am I the proud new owner of a brick?