Ok, so my 3 year old Xbox kicked me then e74 error yesterday.

I already checked and cleaned the AV cable and swapped it over with a new AV cable and no dice.

This means it's the scaler chip inside on the mother board that has gone bad.

Has anyone had any good success with these online repair places that you send your Xbox to, and they repair, ship it back to you?
M$ is going to charge me $99 plus tax and shipping to do the repair, but that's a third of the way to getting the new Xbox 360 Slim w/ Kinect sensor (wife loves that thing).

Let me know guys!