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You sir, have more standalone troubleshooting skills than most anyone asking questions on here. Have a cat for figuring out the issue and following up. Keep us posted on how the motor's doing!
I can't really take too much credit though. Someone else had already caught the bug and made the fix. I just found out about it and copied the changes over to the other firmware.