Well, pin 2 is certainly the pin of interest. It's the one that carries the IR pulses to the StrongARM.

But it doesn't seem like a cold solder joint to me. I've seen it on all three of the empegs I have, albeit two of those have been running Squeezeslave. I suspect the use of the Ethernet port causes more jitter in the IR interrupt. I'll have to wait and see if my "brute force" approach fixes this problem when using Squeezeslave.

So far so good on the commute to/from work today. If anyone genuinely wants a PIC of their own (and promises to actually install it) I could be convinced to throw one in the mail.