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Jim,

I'd also look into how much internal binding the shift forks have on the shafts. You will have to pull the shift tower but that isn't hard at all and you can inspect all three.
It is almost always a sign of the metal particle deposition on the bearing material causing the binding when a cable goes out.
You should be able to shift those forks by hand with a little effort when the tower is out of the transmission. If this has happened then it will probably only get worse and you'll break another cable. Chances are you won't be able to budge the 1-2 shift fork with your fingers.

One important point to note is that you broke the up/down shift cable (forward/back movement). THis cable is the one that takes the load of actually moving the forks, the left to right moving cable only positions the actuator on the right fork and has no heavy load.