I found someone on the net who lost their engineering and now gets his income from building and occasionally repairing pedals. Let's call him Paul. Paul is an awesome fellow that I am very glad I met. Anyway, he found the fault was a faulty IC or two. He socketed all the IC's and recapped the electrolytics, and emailed me saying so far it works great.
Shipping and repairs add up to the average cost of another one off of ebay, and when I asked DOD years back they wanted $40 just to take a look at it.
So now that I will soon have a working pedal back in my hands, I remembered it also has a voltage controller. What was this used for? Would there be any use in trying to find an effect pedal this could control?