I punted on fixing my daughter's CD Boom Box. A word to the wise: if a cd player has a slot with an "auto-intake/auto-eject" feature...
don't buy it without a 3 year full-replacement warranty! They suck moose gonads!
And to top it off, you'll probably have to sacrifice whichever CD happened to be the one in it when it died...salt in the wound, as it were!
WOW! Sounds like quite an ordeal
it's just annoying when things are made to fail so quickly. How kids learn about value when things are made like crap... yet are pricey!