Damaged FireWire Port on DVC

[State Of Mind]

Hi, last December 25th me and some friends were recording outdoors and one of us tripped on some hard snow and my Panasonic PV-DV953 hti the ground a bit harsh. Anyway, ever since then when plugging my DVC into a FireWire port on the card doesn't make the New Hardware Wizard pop-up. I have read about bent pins and damaged ports but none of this really makes any sense to me because I've never gotten a real good look at the actual port on the DVC for the FW.
Anyway, I took the best picture I could with my 6.2 megapixel digital camera, so here it is. Can anyone tell me if it looks ok, or if I need to get closer for proper judgement?

[funkguy4]

the area looks a bit dirty and there's something rust colored in there, although it could just be the high-zoom shot and light playing tricks on me. anyway the important stuff doesn't look damaged.

[State Of Mind]

Yeah, probably the high zoom and light because it doesn't look that way normally. Hmm, I need to get a magnifying glass or something...

[State Of Mind]

Man, the only magnifying glass we have sucks and my camera doesn't like to zoom in on things really close. Sheesh, that really makes me angry. I've been trying to find a place local that does repairs on video cameras but haven't had much luck so far. I really want to upload video again.