Hi Guy's need some input if you could chaps

I have a 5.5G logicboard that was behaving a bit wierd and on closer inspection the last three pins on the dock have been mashed.
They are the Firewire grounds and data pins....
The USB connection doesn't seem to work properly so I'm wondering if the FW pins are needed in some way even though the 5.5's dont use FW?
I could get it working by replacing the pins... fiddly but doable

But I'm not going to bother if the pins are truly unnecessary.
Any thoughts guys?
