Can't Pull Bar to Mount Storage

I don't know what's wrong with my phone. Things are breaking left and right ... To mount the phone so I can access files on it (I don't have an SD card), I: - Disable USB debugging - Enable Mass Storage Mode - Plug the phone in - Go to the home screen - Drag that bar down on the top of the screen - Click on the USB item - Click "Mount Storage" Viola, I can access my files. The problem now is that the bar at the top doesn't drag down. I fear that it's a hardware issue (is there some way to disable/enable it from the software side?) Having said that, how can I now mount the storage to transfer files onto my computer? I have several (100ish) 1.5MB images I need to copy over. I have a Samsung i7500g running Android 1.6. I wrote my own app, which can trap events on the top bar part of the screen; it seems that it's only the home page bar that doesn't allow me to drag it down. Is there some setting I'm missing? **Edit:** Even stranger, sometimes, the pull bar works perfectly.