Ok, I will give those things a try tonight.
The voltage regulator and the flyback are both BRAND NEW though?
How sensitive is that voltage regulator IC? I didn't use a heat sink when soldering it into place, is there a chance I overheated it?
What points on the neck board should I check? If the neck board were bad, what should I be looking for before I put it back on, for it to have a hair-line crack somewhere?
Could there be a chance that the VR 451 3Kohm sync pot could be bad? What would the symptom of that be? I was having some issies with the game syncing up before this thing took a crap on me.