Carefully cut those out. This will expose a column of holes where you will solder in half of a socket. Toshi's had to de-solder all the sockets and, so it isn't easier than Long's way. Toshi's came out looking cleaner and neater though. With the new 14 MHz parts, you should not need to mess with the voltage at all.
Nothing blow up, except the computer just sorta reset it self.
It's just a side note. The easiest way would be to purchase AE's heavy duty power supply. LRO also carries the MPD power supply. That should give a reading of 5v. If you have a skinny, long screw driver, you can adjust the pot with out opening the power supply.