Thanks to whom ever started this thread! I've been having this same problem with my VR-407 for years now! Thank goodness I didn't turn it on (movies only) that often so it didn't bother me all that much if I had to get up and turn it on or adjust the sound. Now because am looking to buy an LCD TV and learning most of the speakers in those sets suck I will have to be using the VR407 more often so I had better fix it or get a new one.

How in the heck does this happen to so many of us and yet NO one from Kenwood recalls these receivers!

I going to give this fix a try and hopefully I do the work right without breaking something else.  Thanks again to those of you who posted the fix!

UPDATE 3/22/09
I took mine apart and fixed it over the weekend.  So far so good the remote now works again and I hope my first attempt at soldering continues to work also!  lol

Thanks Again!