Are there only 4 contacts being used in the Wavebird? I've been fixing my gamecube controllers (haven't opened my Wavebird yet, but I did go to Frye's and spring for the $20 set of screwdrivers that contain the triangular one it requires) and have been poorly mapping out the contacts. It looks like there should be 3 that have some resistance to ground (somewhere between 1k ohm and 100k ohm), one that seems open, and the rest are ground (two wires and the shiled, but in some controllers it seems that one of the two wires might not go to ground), but I'm having a hard time confirming that since i'm working with many different brands of controllers and colors of wire... I hope you solved your problem, and i really hope you found someone with a soldering iron... ; )