Digital Rebel wont power on

I recently purchased a Canon DRebel, worked great for a couple of weeks,
the other day I went to take some pictures and it wont power on at all. I
have two batteries freshly charged. I followed all the trouble shooting
techniques from the manual and the CR rep, no luck.

Has anyone else had any problems like this? Canon wants me to send the
camera in for repair, but I'm currently deployed overseas so it would be
easier to just send it back home and have my wife return it.

Any suggestions or recomendations would be greatly appriciated

Thanks