Suddenly ground to a halt

I thought I had my life mapped out for the next five years - job set up for my gap year, three years doing Physics with Comp sci at Warwick university, then (hopefully) a year-long job with my gap year company should they decide to sponsor me through university.

However. This afternoon I received a phone call from the Physics admissions tutor at Warwick telling me that they are cancelling my course for October 2004 entry. He went on, "But I think, from reading your personal statement, that you're more a physicist with an interest in computer science rather than the other way around, is that right?" Well, no, actually. If any good universities offered a Comp Sci with Physics course (2:1 CS to Phy) I'd have applied for it.

So this leaves me with a few choices.

1. I can opt for a full Physics degree, which shouldn't be a problem admissions-wise. The admissions tutor added that hopefully by the time I would be in my third or fourth year, there would by then be some kind of computational physics options.
2. My UCAS form can be passed on to Warwick's Computer science department and they'll consider me for a Comp Sci degree. It sounds like I'll have to go through all the admissions stuff again, but it's unlikely I'll be called to interview or anything.
3. At the moment I am under obligation to go to Warwick if I achieve the required grades (A-B-B). But seeing as the course that I'm obliged to take won't exist, they can release me from the obligation and I can go to my second choice university, Bath.
4. I can withdraw from UCAS altogether and reapply for whatever I like in the next couple of months.

The first option isn't that tempting. I really do want to do some Comp. sci, as much as I can whilst still retaining some physics. This seems to point to option 3, going to Bath university instead. Except that I don't really want to. Yes, it was my second choice, but it was trailing far behind Warwick for a number of reasons, including campus and course. The computing part of their syllabus is mainly concerned with "the role of computers in physics" as the web page phrases it, and is therefore not ideal.

Withdrawing from UCAS and reapplying isn't something I'm considering seriously. I want to get this settled as soon as I can, and there weren't actually any other, different courses that I'd apply for now if I got the chance. This was what I wanted to do, and Bath's course was the second best choice.

What does sound attractive at the moment is opting for a full Comp Sci degree at Warwick. Being me, though, there is a "but" involved. Here goes.

Computer science is really a skill (or skills). I want knowledge. Reading books like In Search of Schrödinger's Cat and Richard P. Feynman's The Quantum Theory Of Light And Matter made me ache to learn more about quantum physics, relativity, and so on. I certainly don't want to study physics for the experimental skills gained - I'm a lousy experimental physicist. One of the main attractions of the Warwick course was that for the first two years, most of the lab time was replaced by comp sci modules. Another bonus about the joint degree is that (I've been told) it's more solid than a single degree and can potentially give you the edge when jobhunting.

Advice is gratefully welcomed on this matter because I really don't know what to do now. Am I being too picky about courses? Should I stick with straight Comp sci and absorb general physics knowledge for my own pleasure through reading things like The Elegant Universe (which should really be on my To Read list anyway), abandon the further physics education?

So come on, you people with life experience. Help me out here.