[knob]

I actually killed my player again yesterday messing around testing firmware (silly me!), so I had to open it up and do this again and it worked fine and I got my player back again, so I can confirm it does work.
I noticed that I needed to touch somewhere near the middle of the row of chip legs, although I guess my tweezers are just the right size to fit the pin spacing!

princessanne1026, Did your player actually do a reboot?, I noticed on my player the backlight went out when it did a reboot, just as if you had switched the player off and on again.