[Jon Stratis]

It really must suck for rookie teams when problems like the ribbon cable crop up - you just don't expect something like that to be wrong, and just assume you're doing something wrong. A veteran team, on the other hand, would likely *know* that the code is correct, and start swapping out components with spares from previous years, eventually discovering the cable is bad, and then hopefully finding the document on how to fix it.

FWIW, our cable was bad as well, and it really is rather easy to fix. The instructions FIRST posted are great!