Logitech wireless rumblepad... grrr

[KnickNut3]

Hello. I've had a Logitech Wireless Rumblepad for a few months now, and after some headaches with it losing recognition and everything, it was better for a while. Now, it's pissing me off. It will randomly lose connection with the base that it's less than a foot away from and immediately begin to reconnect, but with a 2 second delay of no controls. This will happen every 10 seconds. Often, it loses connection all together, and I have to fiddle with the batteries in the back to get it to start up and get the lights on again. I can't put the back cover on anymore, as it puts the batteries in a spot where it can't read it, for some reason. The loss of connections sometimes seem to be brought about by hitting a button (often "C", the swing button in MVP), but this may just be a coincidence.

Any tricks to get this thing to start working better? I don't have the box or receipt with me at school, so RMAing would be a problem most likely.

Thanks for the help.


(P.S. Yes, I've tried changing the batteries... I've got brand new ones in there now.)

[KnickNut3]

Tried cleaning the battery connectors, and it helped, but I still can't put the back cover on and still lose connection and reconnect with 1-2 second outages every few minutes.