Hi Argon,
Great--I'm glad my article and everyone's suggestions helped you out and you've been able to keep your dimmer.
The broken sub input jack is not uncommon. Owners pull out the sub to vacuum or whatever or step on the coax cable and the input jack breaks. It's one of the reasons we switched to the combo XLR/phone-jack input with the RCA adapter, although that generates its own set of problems (owners lose or can't find the adapter that's shipped with the sub) or are perplexed by what sort of inputs the sub has.
Regards,
Alan
