I think you might be confusing yourself a bit...not sure, but that's what it looks like to me...
high GPIO.0 'GPIO.0 GOES LOW ---- GPIO.0 looks like it goes low because the LED goes out. No... it's got 5v on both sides of the LED...no current flow...
I think, in the end, you're going to end up cutting traces and doing some rewiring.
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