major tranny problems, need help

[import slayer]

On friday I was cruising on the highway when I hear this noise in my car and all of a sudden there was smoke everywhere. When I pulled over there was tranny fluid all over the ground. Today the shop calls me and tells me that the front pump has been completly torn up. They are saying that it could be the converters fault and right now they are still messing with it. That really does not make any sense to me. My converter has only about 1500 miles on it. What do you think could have caused this, has anyone ever heard of this before and how much do you think this will cost to fix?

[Y2KPewterSS]

Are you running a tranny cooler? If you don't have a cooler, you should, heat kills automatic trannies and convertors increase the heat in trannies.