Gotta be honest, that's kinda what I figured. I was hoping to hear from someone who had experienced this and could say with somewhat more certainty than I. I was skeptical since the center display is somewhat of a seperate component, seperate that is once you've begun disassembling the cluster. I was also suspect that perhaps the interior lighting signal coming to the various components was "bad", not the nice modulated square wave it should be, but if that were the case, I think that all the lights would flicker or go out in unison.

Thanks for the input, if anyone else has any thoughts I'd love to hear them.

MV