Thank you, thank you, thank you. I cannot believe I was so lucky to come across this thread today!! We have struggled with our VR507's remote for over a year now. My husband and I (not being electonically inclined) have had people come in to make sure that we had everything "connected" properly. It was so frustrating that sometimes the remote would work and MOST of the time it would NOT. Last night we pulled everything apart AGAIN to try and see what could be the problem.
Thank you plazman for posting the picture of how to solder the three joints. We have done this and everything works great now!
I will say this....I will NEVER buy a Kenwood product again, since I too have emailed them countless times and no one would give you an answer on how to fix this problem...or any Kenwood dealer we have gone to.