Memories! The hours, days, weeks, spent tweaking my AVLE to get it - and keep it - playing right. Kinda missing mine right about now too.
Had I kept it, I would have had to make the cut on the plastic to see the Thor targets. I never did that and wished I had, but I was afraid I'd damage something. Of my "OMG what were you thinking!" compaints about AV out of the factory, the Thor targets were my biggest.
Great write up OP!