I will, just wondering if there was any other common failure point I should look into.

Same problem here. friend of a friend handed me it, and said here see if you can make this paperweaght work. So far, little tinkering last night, didn't see any solder connection issues(I did just read some stuff about the large solder blobs, have not done anything there yet) plays CDs fine, skips tracks, display works as does eject etc... I do