Iphone 1G Touchscreen Stopped Responding

Hey all you knowledgeable people out in cyperspace.

My beloved iPhone 1G (ready to be switched out with a iPhone 4.0 when the times are right) stopped responding on the touch panel the other day. Judged from forums around the net, this is an unfortunately quite

common habit for this product. Mine worked 2 years 10 months and 3 weeks and 2 days 24/7, so I can't complain about the product at all.

Looking around the net I can find many possible ways to repair the 1G iPhone, that in it's HW design, are quite different from the 2G (3G/3GS). On these models it not so expensive and should be cheep and fast to exchange.

So my wife called winnertelecom.com the other day to get a quotation on the repair-price. It took some calls around their different branches, but finally she catches a guy that could explain her the options.

Roughly 3.500 bath for a new panel, which on this specific model contains the front-glass (the touch-panel itself) and the LCD-panel with a new back-light lamp or a 2nd hand whole unit at around 3t bath.

I never had any problem with the LCD panel, no pixel errors, no fading back-light, strong as in hel_l especially in the nighttime. So I choose to search on ebay and here I saw - do it yourself offer from HongKong, touch-panel

new once around 20 bugs incl. sh.

20 bugs is around 700 bth, so I would like to know if any got the same problem as me, and what was the solution and the costs...if any shop could be named, too, I would be a very happy guy.

Cheers