Television and Home Theater

was wondering if someone can give me some good and true info on what is happening with this tv.

I have a Sony KP-51WS510 that was manufactured in 2003.  Picture has a green spiral on it when first turned on in the backround of the normal picture (more apparent on black screen or dark colors) and then within 30 seconds...the entire screen washes to green and then the TV shuts off.  The error code on the front standby light is 8 times, but what I have found to coincide with that error code is not what seems to be stored in the self diagnostics.  They are as follows (as they appeared on the screen):

2  +B OCP   0

I was given this TV because it would collapse the picture sometimes.  I found that some pressure on the RF input would make it OK for a while.  I finally decided to trouble shoot it and found the degauss thermistor was de-soldered.  This is RT4201K with numbers 100-01A A1737 and I found that translated to 207768 RCA Thermistor.  I tried to re-solder the lead to the thermistor but it broke in half as soon as the solder gun touched it.  I found a new part by the 207768 number but it had 100-02A A1759 on it.  I put this part