Thanks for the tips. I will try cutting that lead, I was not sure what to do with it since it connected to the black areas.
Well, when we bring the sticks to tournaments everyone wants to use their own stick, so there is a lot of swapping of joysticks. There has never been a problem with the fuse (though I have heard of the problem people had, but I think it was mostly when they used 2 360's and a vmu at the same time)
Thanks again for the tip!