bricked via widget

So I edited a few widgets and installed them.  One of the apps still turned out to be too large for the screen (it was supposed to be resized, I must have missed something) and it not only covered any menus I went into but slowed the phone til it froze.  Lucky for me I had no mem card in at the time and so had pc usb mode enabled, I just went in TKFE and deleted the widget.  Had to go back into the phone when I turned it back on and delete it again (it was still listed) from the menu. Problem fixed.

So now I have been more careful of what widgets I test.  Most of them coming from the Impression forum.  I installed a batch yesterday, no problems, but when I pulled either a accuweather or time widget off the sidebar don't remember which, the phone restarted. and restarted... bricked.  Apparently widgets that have been thoroughly tested can still randomly brick yr phone.  The phone gets 3 secs into homescreen, updating time comes up, then it restarts. 

Had it in mass storage mode unfortunately, took the mem card out, don't know if this will change that setting or not. I can't get the computer to recognize the phone therefore no TKFE access to be able to delete it.  Don't want to chance trying to delete with the phone rebooting and I'm assuming there's no firmware for this phone? I searched and read about everything but came up with nothing. Tried to get to bootloader menu but no luck yet, was thinking maybe TKFE would work from there. 

Funny enough my alarm is set to wake the phone up if it is off, which it does and without restarting.  Didn't think about hooking up the usb cord til after I turned the alarm off at which point the phone shut off again.  Have to wait to morning to try and see if the comp will recognize it with the alarm going off.

Just need to delete that widget, maybe someone has an idea on how to get it into a mode where I can, or even reset the phone. Not concerned about losing anything. Any ideas? Or do I submit it back to AT&T under warranty? (got the phone right before x-mas)


Update: 
I took the sim card out and started the phone and I can access the menus and delete it out now.  Problem fixed.  I feel retarded that I didn't try that sooner.  Oh well atleast I can share the info.

Stormlilly I think at has somthing to do with OTA download of the widget because you are correct even widgets that have tested hundreds of times still can put ones phone into a recycle sequence. It has happened to me on my solstice. I don't know if your phones internal lay out is the same but this is how I got mine fixed. When ever I am testing a widget I make sure my phone is set to pc studio connection first. I went in via tkfe with the phone turned off yes with phone off still was able to run tkfe on the impression and solstice there is a folder named wm_store. I deleted all the files within that folder and turned my phone back on then performed the factory reset you mentioned and all was good. So any time you do a OTA download of a widget I think you run the risk of a bad data transfer. Also wondering was it one of the widgets I created that caused it.