@Chris R
Buy from AmigaKit.com and stop wasting time!
seriously.....they are very good to deal with and you will be enjoying your Amiga sooner.
Im sure your A600 probably still works though....I suspect you left some screw inside or something making contact with metal, that may or may not have totally screwed up your Amiga.
Never leave any metal touching other metal or chips, or wires.
Also I recommend getting a Subway USB card for your A600 or A1200.....it will only work on the 600 if you have the clockport adaptor and at least a 68020 I think, but it works great on the A1200 and gives you Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, many more options of devices you can attach and 1 BILLION times easierto transfer files from a PC or a Mac to your Amiga. I personally consider any Amigan who doesn't have USB on their Amiga yet, a professional nutcase and have no clue what they are missing. I say this jokingly, but the Subway definitely defintely defitely is a must have to the 3rd power multiplied by 7.
Get one!
also get yourself a MASPlayer MP3 decoder if you want to play 18bit MP3's on your Amiga............get the Pro Version ifyou can find one as the normal one seems to use like 60% CPU even though they say it doesnt.
And if you really really want to do alot of things for your Amiga.......get yourself SCALA MM300 or MM400 and if you are creative, you will do everything with this app......even things that it cannot do you can make it do. Like use Commands from your C directory, and Arexx, and icons to run stuff and integrate it into itself.