Bob:
Again, and forgive me for repeating myself, I am not kncking the KB, I know, I know, it's cheap, and that's fine! It's Yamaha's poor judgement on building it so poorly when another $200 added to the price would have kept everyone happy with a "professional KB" even them.
On a more positive note, I just call them and they will send me the broken pad free of charge, since they were happy to find out that I will be doing the repair and not them.

Mario