The brown wire is in the 1st position...

By the way, I reconnected the 3-pin cable and the DICE module re-initialized. It seems to be working fine now.

I have a new theory. Tell me if this sounds retarded:

The iPod that was plugged belongs to my friend Kelli. It has some kind of plastic film on the front of it, which I assume is to protect the iPod's finish. Well, I think this film may (at times) be constantly pushing buttons on the click-wheel...

I think the film caused a button on the iPod to be pushed so many times that the DICE module became overloaded and stop working properly. Maybe it affected more than one thing in the car (made my alarm system stop working).

Does this sound possible?