I want a complete plug n' play display board sent to me ready to go. Is that too much to ask??

If you had considered directly contacting the company that made and support the product you might have got an accurate response rather more quickly than waiting for a member of our support team to see your post on here and reply to it.

which given the reliability who knows that very well may have been the case

You were extremely careful handling your dissassembled unit, yet the nipple happened to snap off. I strip them apart in a minute or two with no particular precautions and in four years I've never broken a nipple. Do you think bad luck may be more of a factor than unreliability?

Anyway you have your price (from David) which I think is pretty reasonable, considering we have to break apart a perfectly good brand new player to get that display board for you.

Rob