Yeah, they made pretty wicked RM's back in 200 AD. The wooden chariot wheels they used then never go flat.
I have checked the wiring pretty close, I dont see any crimps or breaks in the wire. The ground has never been removed. The connectors look OK.
I called Shuppe motorcycle electrics in Grand Junction Colorado this morning, (I got there name from a Google search). He said whenever you pull a stator and handle it at all, you are taking a slight chance of ruining it. Some bikes can have them removed hundreds of times without a problem, others will break the first time you pull them. They even occasionally break when you dont touch them. There is a mile of really thin wire in a stator, and all it takes is one little strand to break. He says it is not that uncommon, and as near as he can tell, it is not brand specific (except I have read elsewhere that Ducati's are really bad for this). He charges $140 to rewind it. He guarantees his work. That is a far cry better than $250 from Bike Bandit. He says new ones have been known to be bad right out of the box too, and being electrical stuff, the guarantee isn't always too good.
The whole thing just ticks me off. Why me! But I guess that is life, and I just have to send it off to Shuppe and get over it.