Ok, this is amazingly weird!!

I swapped the internals back to the modules they originally belonged to...and BAM! they work perfectly!

For some reason, the LCD Panel With the White ribbon cable is married to the LCD Driver Board that it belongs to. If you swap the LCD driver board behind the LCD screen, you could get into the same trouble I did!!

Not that you would ever need to hopefully

Just to clarify, i am talking about the INTERNALS of the LCD Panel with the buttons. The LCD Panel is the thing that folds down to accept CD/Tape and is connected to the Tape Player/ CD Player through 2 golden ribbon cables..