elky, sorry i havent got back to you sooner i have been really busy bustin my ass to find a job. anyway i talked it over with the kid who helped me out, we had the same exact issues, i remmeber that the schematic he had sent me was wrong. After we fixed that we determined that it was the board...and since you are having the same issues and according to you and him the schematic is correct then it leads me to believe that maybe when he soldered the board, there is a soldered short in the board, as soon as he sent me a new board it worked... so perhaps thats the issues....
let me know what happenes. I talked to him about it when i had my issues and he was cool with it.
