Endless:
After reading your post, I decided not to risk open the remote for nothing; all other soft & hard buttons are working fine, so I spent sometime last night placing 3 small circular buttons at the bottom of each page for Main and Page +/- then macro them to do exactly the same function as the hard buttons. After testing, I don't really miss the hard buttons at all! since most of the time I only really use the hard Main/Page buttons to wake the remote up! and they are still working in that aspect. I'll test a bit more to make sure there are no other funky stuffs, but will remove the battery and put it away for rainy day! Hope this help.
See you around the forum.
bt