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You could try re-soldering the green & white wires back. Shorting those to ground produces the splitting.

Additionally, you can very carefully tap each coil on the pickup with a screwdriver to see which are working in which position. Joe's video on a pickup install demonstrates how to do this.

Best of luck!

First, let me start with saying that I'm using the Gibson color codes, as the blacktop schematic seems to show. other color codes can be found here.

If you short the green/white wires to the black wire (or ground), you leave the Slug or North coil alive.

If you short the green/white wires to the red wire (or hot), you leave the Screw or South coil alive.

The two schematics in the original post operate differently. if you look at the switch element in the upper-right position, the Blacktop one switches to ground and the Guitar-Electronics one switches to hot. However, the one from Guitar-Electronics puts the coil tap (green/white wires) into the common positions of both the upper-right and lower-right switch elements. The Blacktop one places the coil taps on the selected poles.

So, the first decision is whether you want your humbuckers to have the screw coil or slug coil active in positions 2&4. I'm going to assume that you want the screw/South coils active. First, for the upper-right switch, move the common from ground to hot. The most simple may be to unsolder the wire from the common, and place a jumper to the common of the lower-right switch. Next, de-solder the Neck hot from position 2, and the bridge hot from position 4. This should work!

I made a diagram, but can't figure out how to post it here. I will send the diagram if I can.

Best of luck!

after looking at this a second time, I am still confused. From what I am seeing, I should still be getting tapped positions. The 2 position has green and white shorted to hot already, so I should be getting tapped north, but I am getting both. The 4 position should be tapped as well, just tapped to the south coil. They should still be tapped, but they're not, I believe.

Mk. Problem resolved! After much studying and probing, I got to testing connections and found one side of the super 5-way switch, which contains two of the four poles, was not making connections between the 5 positions and the common. The conductor inside the switch had become disengaged from the clips that are supposed to make contact with it. I got the conductor back into position, and, voila, it worked. Even though it turned out to be a mechanical issue, thanks to Jeff for his time spent helping!