Ok, yep, took the ethernet card out, and by the capacitors, there is a gunky, filmy stuff all around that area of the board, and not anywhere else.

So, I took the Apple IIe card out of the LCII, and same thing. Took the ethernet card out of the LCIII, and yep, again, same thing.

Grumble, grumble, grumble...ok, I guess I have to re-cap the things. How hard is that? I have limited experience with a soldering iron...definitely *not* searching for another task to do right now, but oh well..