Can't you just buy a soldering iron, some solder and a scrap PCB board at your local electronics store and practice soldering? It's not that hard after a few tries, you could probably fix the shifter issues, if you have any, on the G25.
When Nascar changed it's rules to only 1 cylinder engines for gas savings, the American companies also thought "the smaller the engine, the smaller the car."
You need the songs you have on your iPod to be on the computer's HD or the computer updates the iPod to what the computer has. Yes, happens to be also and isn't fun.
Google search Memtest86, download it, burn it to a disk, restart your computer with the disk in the CD drive and make sure you computer boots from the CD.
Edit, new problem...my screen now is starting to blink. I get random black screens when I play LFS and TDU, and in TDU, I believe the GFX just crashes. Temperature or just a bad card in this case?
What are some programs that tell me temperatures of my computer, CPU, HD and all. I have SpeedFan but that doesn't tell me the temperatures of my GFX. I tried ATiTool but I don't get GFX temperatures either. I can find it in the Catalyst Control Center but it's annoying having to have 2 programs open just to find a few temperatures. Are there any other programs?