Quoted from Wickerman2:Do not buy another EM. What you are experiencing is typical EM troubleshooting. If you hate it, you will have issues with every one of them eventually.
Agree 100%. You can't just hop around and fix random issues. EM's require you to troubleshoot in a chronological order. In this case the first thing would have been to get the machine to fully reset the score reels to zero. That didn't happen and from that point all was lost.
If someone has this much trouble with a single player, imagine what would happen with a multi-player.