Hah that's pretty neat. I haven't noticed that yet, but I have had a few instances where an injured enemy would take one last potshot at me unless I or a team mate finished him off.
My office has had some issues with UPS in the past few months, and we're starting to wonder if some of their folks are destroying packages and just reboxing them. We got a Dell rackmount server in a few months ago, and the packaging looked perfectly fine and it was packed with foam quite well...
You can always call up the electronics teacher at a local trade school to see if they want to try resoldering it. A school I went to had all kinds of stuff people would bring in for them to try salvaging. I was impressed at how well the students repaired an old Heathkit HERO robot that was...