Update on mine - the TB was 100% ok, turns out my battery WAS almost dead. Charged it right up and the car's running great.
I wonder of if these TB's had a design change and vX.1 works fine, but vX.2 has issue? The only other thing I can think of as to why I've had no issues, but a number of others have (even with replacements) is that I've put very fewe miles on mine (car was bought 11/04, but still only has 8K miles on it - the benefit/curse of working out of town).