Originally Posted by billha

Glad to hear that you found a solution. As far as I know, I was the 1st to come up with the idea of using toothpicks to replace the pins that had turned to goo. I though about using pieces of q-tips instead, but the paper ones I had were too wide, and the plastic ones were too thin.
By the way, if anyone'* interested, I recently had to replace some defective radio control switches on my '92 SSE */c, and to my surprise, the pins were solid plastic rather than the rubber pins that turned to goo on my '93 SSEi. I wasn't previously aware that GM had made rubber versions and plastic versions - my vote is for the plastic versions because they'll never turn to goo due to heat or age.