Quote by brez:

No, but the wheel is a pain to put back together.
To get the wheel off, just pull it.

If you haven't already taken your player apart it is very easy; take the metal back off, then there are 5 screws and some clips on the sides (be carefull with these if you don't want gaps when its back together, particularly the left clip because there's no screw on that side. )

Quote by Riolist:

Thanks. Can you tell what part of the wheel is magnetic? On the board, it looks like the sensors could be the two black components between the switches or the four white ones on the outer edges.

Quote by lelyn:

Quote by Riolist:

Also it looks like the fact that the wheel is attached by a ribbon cable means it would be relatively easy to rig a wheel lock switch.

Duh!, What a dummy I am.  I spent the better part of 1/2 an hour persuading my cousin that I needed him to hack the firmware to see if we could unpin the volume from the wheel.

My low tech, not so pretty fix (but no one sees it, anyway) fix.  I slid a 1/4"  X 1/4" piece of 3M double sided, heavy duty, mounting tape beneath the outside wheel edge and the player.  Figured that would allow it enough give for activation, but stop it from spinning.  It does, works great.  I'm back in love again.  I'm so glad for screws instead of clips, made this a 5 minute job.

If you do this, make sure you fix the wheel in the position you want the indicator at.  I fixed mine to point to the Menu.

Sorry about my rant earlier.

Quote by lelyn:

Yes, no more pitchbend & seek.  I like to keep pitchbend at 100%, so no loss for me.  The aggravation of the wheel adjusting volume, pitchbend and seeking when I didn't want it to was ruining my listening experience and I'm not taking the time to think about a wheel lock key until after the holidays.