Well, I just held the iron across the two larger ground points, and held pressure while heating. That came off pretty quickly. Did the same on the 3 points, worked nicely.
Wires went off/on smooth, the hardest part was getting it positioned right in the case so it didn't wiggle around. I need to shoe goo it but I was too excited to try it.
It works. I didn't break it. lol. I'm already not used to it. It's amazing how one little thing like that can mess up your habits pretty quickly.
I would still REALLY like to know why it did not come like this... Probably because the 6ex airplane radio has it in that spot, but they should have known it would piss us off. Then again, they did make it easy to modify so I must thank them for that. Mine is done and it works so no more worries here!
-Eric