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I have already sunk so much time into this that I am giving up for now, at least until someone can come up with a way to unbrick the device in USB HID mode. My friend constructed the cable beautifully, but the wires were in the wrong order. When I realized this mistake, I attempted to just hold the wires to the pins, and had some success at first, but this decreased over time, making wonder if I shorted out the wires or somehow damaged the pins.
The lesson I learned from all of this is jailbreaking a Kindle Touch is emphatically NOT like jailbreaking an iOS device, where there is always that convenient option to restore the device to factory settings in iTunes. I would strongly recommend that others learn from my mistake and do not jailbreak a Kindle Touch at this point, unless you are fairly competent at electronics, know someone who is, or would like to spend a lot of time learning. I would like to have that kind of time, but I don't. It is all the more frustrating given that I feel I was so close (I managed to get the device to mount the USB drive, but only once). Someone really needs to write a clear, step-by-step guide “for dummies,” like myself. This is what I was trying to start above with my description of the cables.
I hope others have more success than I did. While I didn't unbrick the device, I am sincerely thankful for all of your help.
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