The phone is working perfectly behind the white blank screen, I navigate the phone using screen shots taken with JL_Cmdr.
Anyway it's a moot point now as I have already purchased a replacement 8900 today, I can't survive without a blackberry, even the round trip time to send the phone to horizon for repairs is too long for me. But I will probably send it in to have it fixed at a later date and use it as a backup phone in case the new one dies.
And yes a new one is expensive still but my company is footing the bill