Okay. Let us know.
I believe those resistors are simple voltage dividers to throttle the current that reaches those LED's, and if something shorted it may have pulled too much current through those resistors. I didn't look at the parts list but I assume those are probably 1/6W resistors so it wouldn't take much. Resistors' failure mode is open-circuit. Might have toasted some and nearly toasted others that after passing normal current went into full failure, which would explain why you lost function on some LED's and just experienced dimming and then full failure on others. Don'r recall exactly the progressive symptoms you experienced and I'm too lazy to look, but from memory I seem to recall something died right away, something else presented a slow death and something else just isn't healthy. You wouldn't necessarily be able to see any physical change to the exterior of the resistor if it was toast. You would expect that on a higher voltage circuit but not here. Since that part of the circuit ONLY provides power to the LED's, a failure here won't effect the transport functions which would explain why you are still operating fine. Furthermore, the record LED in the remote taps its power from this same circuit after the resistor, so that would explain why its not working in the remote either. You replaced the driver chip with no positive change, but that doesn't surprise me because those resistors would actually protect the driver chip (depending on the specs of the chip), OR (obviously) even if the driver chip WAS damaged, replacing it won't fix bad resistors.
For future reference, if you can access those components while the deck is powered you could simply start at the effected component, measure voltage (which, if its dead, you won't measure anything), and keep tracing back from the component until you get voltage. At that point you will find the failed component. This will come in handy if you measure your resistors out-of-circuit and they are fine.
You can't measure resistors in-circuit which is why I'm telling you to desolder one leg.
So anyway, let us know what you find.