Mike, after a little research no where in the manual for the programmer does it state the programming of the servos should be dirrectly hooked to the programmer and that going through an extension could cause problems. If you still feel this is the cause of my failure then Hitec has a problem. We followed the directions provided with the programmer to properly reset the servos as reccommended by Hitec and well you know the result.
I'll try to get these servos sent back to you within a day or so but like I mentioned on the phone if we can't determine what caused the failure in your servos I will no longer use them. I don't think that is to much to ask since my incident isn't the only time this has happened... Hitec needs to spend more time trying to determine the cause of failure instead of just replacing servos.