Hi elkington_i9000,
I figured this out, but didn't find any one post that addressed it from start to finish. I had to do a hard reset last night when I couldn't access anything on the phone..the equivalent of the BSOD. I didn't want to lose about two weeks worth of photos of my nearly three year old daughter. I was able to mount my phone's internal SD on my pc. See tip #8 here (very easy).
10 essential tips Galaxy S users should know(1) | CareAce You might still be able to recover those photos....even though it's been a month since your post (I'll want to see a pic if this works for you.
Everything I had ever taken, photo, video, audio was still on my card even though most had been deleted months ago. So after prepping your phone for mounting. You can try either of these...I tried several...(I was obsessing about this last night.)
Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools PhotoRec worked nicely for all types of files, but no pretty GUI. Stellar Pheonix Photo Recovery will allow you to pull music and photos, but no video. It does have a nice GUI and gives you thumbnail previews of the files. This costs $39.00. The scan is free though, so you might do that first just to confirm you're seeing the files that you actually want and then you can use PhotoRec to actually recover them (it would take another full scan though...PhotoRec is faster than Stellar). I had to run PhotoRec twice to get it to find the files...first time didn't find much for some reason...probably an incorrect setting on my part. I tried Recuva from the Lifehacker site and only found a handful of my files. You might try that one as well.
Every png, bmp, midi, and just about any other file was available too...so you might find some other things you're looking for.
Anyway, all my files are happily on my PC...now I just have to reinstall all my apps.
Good luck!
Brad