Update: DO NOT SEND YOUR N900 TO NOKIA'S CANADA REPAIR CENTER. They will tell you they cannot touch it and basically waste your time. VERY unhappy about all this because i never would have sent it to them if the warranty checker page would have told me "BTW YOUR PHONE IS USA REPAIR ONLY, GO **** YOURSELF"

sorry for the rant, i'm just fuming mad at nokia right now. If i knew this was going to end up like this from the beginning i would have just done the repair job myself. What bothers me the most is that i talked to TWO different nokia reps, both had my IMEI and my phone model. Neither seemed to feel inclined to inform me that I would get *** raped later.