well, a little more in depth notes, new testing, etc:
SNES is super clean, i keep in that way
no other games give me any problems, loads games like 90% of the time, 100% after a blow or a q-tip
single chip board, no mode 7 that i'm aware of.
ideas:
change the resistor and capacitor on the board, other than that, i think i'm SOL.