Well I did instruct you to laugh if you must. Evidently I don't do anything the easy way. :-)

I don't feel like it was wasted effort though - some of the larger tantalum caps on both boards look as if they may have been leaking. I'd rather been safe than have to yank the module out again.

Whatever the case, the outcome is that now anyone with the desire to remove the module can unlock it for programming, and do so without rare and expensive GM tools.