Plaidophile

So after resolving my little iPhone debacle I was unable to actually connect to voicemail anymore - the voicemail app didn't show anything but a "call AT&T" message (which dialed 611, rather than my voicemail box) and holding 1 on the dialer didn't do anything. A websearch came across this thread which said to just call my own number, which I did, and while it didn't go down exactly as indicated (I was put directly into my voicemail box instead of having to go through the password and the like), that did indeed repair my voicemail.

How strange. I wonder if there's something in the iPhone Visual Voicemail thing that makes that go strangely, like the phone has to connect to voicemail to set something up on the backend or something.