Kodak1275 doesn't power up.

Didn't drop it, didn't get it wet.
Purchased it a week ago. Went through 5 sets of batteries...It showed the bat.low symbol so I turned it off, changed the batteries but it won't power up. Even purchased a printerdock to see if that would help...
Cleaning hardly used contacts in an brandnew camera sounds like a Microsoft-solution...Isn't there a sneaky keycombination to get this thing into servicemode?
The kodak site is no real help either..
By the way, I got this as a birthday present.....thanks to Kodak my friend now feels guilty as heck...

I know what I would buy next time...