Wow, you guys are brutal.  OK, so I found a big problem and I hope I fixed it.  The board is cracked right at the "high voltage connector?"



This is where the neck board was caught smoking


Here's just some more pics to make this thread more "useful".













So what do you think?  Should I try powering it up again and see if that crack caused a short and was the source of the smoke or would it be the little black transistor on the neck board like you said earlier?