I am presently filing a claim with Belkin. I don't believe it'll get me anywhere, but I am going to try since the TV was connected to one of their surge protectors.
Also, I checked for shorts on the board where the resistors were removed, there are none.
Measuring the resistors shows a dead short on both of them, they are not low ohm resistors.
I am going to see if I can find some replacement parts here, like maybe off a PC power supply, or any other electronic equipment.
Funny thing, I was just cleaning up all my junk (old VCR's, TV's, PC's, motherboards) just crap I have been saving for years. I am going to recycle it all, but first there may be some parts I can salvage to fix the TV.