Hi
Could you try also with a resistor, instead of shorting directly to ground? About 10k. That would be nicer to the chipset output drivers. (I wanted to desolder the pin completely for that reason too.)
I'm am only shorting the *input* pin #init to ground which is pulled up by a pull-up resistor (which i didn't found). But i will post s.t. detailled with images and stuff so anyone with little solder experience can do it herself.
ST