Some lessons learned:
I lifted three pads some while doing this. I found no rhyme or reason to their lifting. On some I put the heat to them like nobodys business and nothing. Sometimes you are just going to lift a pad. Nothing that wasn't able to be bridged or fixed, so thank goodness for that.
cutting the SMD caps off the board with snips first makes the desoldering much easier.
three of the 5 caps on my processor board (3640?) were backwards! I'm glad I got them square before running her more. Several had leaked badly as well as a few on the motherboard proper.
Moral of the story - check your caps! They can be just as nasty as the batteries.
