Sparkfun Serial LCD Kit Bricked. (SOLVED... mostly)

i've purchased serial lcd kit sparkfun (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10097) , messing code, trying mesh menubackend code found here: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/uploads/profiles/menubackend_1-4.zip

well, pain, loaded original lcd code onto lcd's chip, , menu code onto uno, , tried 2 talking via tx/rx pins. worked, kind of. long story short, screen started printing gibberish , randomly changing backlight intensity, reloaded lcd code again , powered lcd, time unconnected uno.

when splash screen came on, characters in wrong spot. looking @ code, obvious board thought running 20x4 character display, when running 16x2. couldn't convince otherwise novice level tinkering, said f*** , reset chip's eeprom try rid of data wouldn't rewrite.

that seems have been bad idea.
now i've got screen nothing. blank. no apparent activity. bricked.
the chip seems fine. i've written sketch it, , saw results via serial monitor. can't activity out of screen.
any ideas?

not sure why screen got garbled in first place, reason went blank because lcd kit code designed read last state of eeprom , set screen according values. when flashed eeprom, went zero, that's stayed.
i wrote appropriate values eeprom, , fine.

code: [select]

#include <eeprom.h>

void setup()
{
   eeprom.write(3, 1); //(splash_screen_address, splashscreenenable)
       eeprom.write(5, 16); //(columns_address, columns)
       eeprom.write(4, 2); //(rows_address, rows)
       eeprom.write(1, 128); //(lcd_backlight_address, backlightsetting)
       eeprom.write(2, 9600); //(baud_address, baudsetting)
}
void loop()
{
}

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