Sharp PC-1600 keyboard issues

Another day, another project (the DAP will wait until I have the wiring to support it...). This week a bunch of "Refurbished" Sharp PC-1600s showed up on eBay for cheap and I snagged one; it arrived this evening. It looks like the unit is effectively new-old-stock; it doesn't seem to have been used since Sharp refurbished it back in the day -- it arrived with the original Sharp-branded batteries in the compartment. Amazingly, only one of the four batteries leaked, but only a tiny bit and there's no obvious corrosion anywhere from it (whew). The PC-1600 powers on and mostly behaves normally after an "All Reset" but the keyboard is having trouble; here are the symptoms: - Keys A-K on the 2nd row of the QWERTY section do not function ('L' does). - The "Shift" key doesn't work properly -- hitting it doesn't cause the "Shift" annunciator on the LCD to light up. However, it does seem to do *something* in that if you hit Shift+another (working) key, nothing happens at all (for example, Shift+5 should result in a left curly brace but does nothing at all.). - The "SML" key does not put the machine in lowercase mode, instead one of the Kanji (i believe) annunciators gets toggled. This has no other obvious effect (uppercase letters are still produced from the working letter keys...) - Hitting the "KB II/Click" key (farthest right under the LCD) turns "Key Click" mode on even though Shift is not being depressed. (Or maybe this is normal behavior -- I can't find this key described in the manual...) Otherwise, the thing seems to be working OK, it'll calculate fine and I can enter/run small programs (that don't use the home row for entry...) I've found the Technical Drawing set here: http://www.sharp-pc-1600.de/Schaltpl%8ane%20A3/Technical_Drawing_DINA3.pdf which makes it obvious that the dead home-row keys are related to the KIN3 line from the keyboard matrix; I note that the keyboard signals are brought to the edge of the PCB and connected to a membrane layer which contains additional circuitry, including what looks to be an IC that does the keyboard decoding. My first guess would be dirty contact between the PCB and this membrane (esp. since the lines in question are close to a hole in the battery compartment where the aforementioned 30-year-old batteries were...) but I'm a bit nervous to disassemble and clean this without knowing how it's held together. Anyone have any experience here? Any tips? Thanks as always, Josh