That's exactly the type of help I was hoping for, I really appreciate it, looks like there's some good people around hear after all :)
I've been thinking, why not just solder my own solder points to the battery? This might be horrendously stupid, but I don't know any better.
At any rate, my polly is doing the "Nothing but weird noises" thing again, after I re-loaded the factory content last time, so the problem isn't going away.....It's time, thanks for the useful info, wish me luck I'm going in.....