OK brilliant people:
Rob I love how detailed your answer was and I tried it with some success. Here is the whole story:
Replaced the screen with success and everything worked fine, until he went to charge it. Then it wouldn't charge.
I took it apart again and got it to connect to my computer. The screen got damaged so I replaced it again.
When I got it back together it was white. I tried the hard reset and after it turned off it wouldn't turn back on again.
I then tried your grounding trick and got it connected again. Again the new screen was white, so I again tried the hard reset. Same results.
It appears that I can get it to connect, but I can't get a picture. Also if I try to rest the device I lose all connectivity and power.
I have looked close and I don't see any obvious signs of damaged cables, etc.
So anyone have a great answer as to how I should proceed now?
Thanks,
Brian