Phew, glad its fixed, but your problem reminded me of a colleagues wife earlier this year.
Brand new (well 2 week old by the time it happened) Skoda Fabia.
Off she went to work, straight off at a corner and wrote the car off.
Investigations revealed that mice had chewed the plastic brake lines and left her with no brakes.
They then went to check on his Volvo C30 and discovered that they had also eaten his bonnet lining/fibreglass sound deadening stuff.