Spent another hour hammering, prying, chiseling, on that last screw. It isn’t going anywhere. Was able to dig around inside and found that the latch seems to have been split in half - with the bottom half - where all 4 of the rods are connected - totally intact and held in place by that last screw… The top half, however - which was where the actual hook / metal latch that keeps the door shut - was in 5 pieces at the bottom of the door.It looks like the inside and outside door lock and the inside and outside handles - and their respective rods - all still work just not the thing that I need the most. That whole metal gear and little shaft that it spins on that are part of the hook that snags the striker - it is what was decapitated. The biggest problem is that I absolutely cannot see - let alone see HOW all those 4 rods are connected to the latch, so it almost would be pointless to buy a new one only to never get it connected. As far as the pins go - so let me get this straight - the OLD / original pins must be ground / un-mushroomed / pounded out - but the NEW ones just snap right in using a ring to lock them in place? You can see why this is confusing - Because if the new ones and old ones are the same and go on and off the same - you’d have to destroy the new ones to put them on.