Magsafe (again)

After 40 or more kick outs, where my mid 2010 book went dead and lost all charge whilst on the mains (though would re-charge), it finally died. All I had was a grey apple, grey spinner and a horizontal thermometer that got to 1 cm before all went black again. I replaced the battery, then the hard drive (sibling issues, plus HD full etc) and the magsafe cable. I got a decent reinstall off my old HD in a Startech enclose and was amazed that my baby rebooted. No combination of any keys had done this when it was inside the machine. I put Maverick on the new hard drive and all was perfect. (Apple owe me 4 weeks of my life thinking this through).
But my MBP still wasn't charging. Green to orange to off etc. Then it occurred to me that the socket in the side was to blame. All the shorting had stuffed my hard drive. When I took a tooth pick to the socket and scraped out the dirt the new magsafe seated correctly and I have had no issues since.
So 2 questions, can the shorting at the connection blow a hard drive? And can the obsession with the pins just be symptomatic of a bad connection at the computer end?
Anyway I hve a Macbook Pro that works today. But after spending £60 on a battery, £20 on tools (my battery was 5 not 3 winged, for some reason, so add £10 and a wasted week waiting for a Y30 something) £40 on a new HD (a bargain, God love mistakes on Amazon) £40 on the enclosure and whatever a new Magasafe cable is I seem to have solved my issue with a toothpick.
Toothpicks are 50p for 50 at my local store.
Mike

You might want to look at [this article|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1630] from Apple's knowledge base. It is possible that the way you are using the magsafe adapter is contributing to the issue.
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I would be concerned too if my MacBook Pro exhibiting the behavior you described. For a message like this, I recommend resetting your System Management Controller (SMC) and NVRAM.
Resetting the SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own
Note: Portable computers that have a battery you should not remove on your own include MacBook Pro (Early 2009) and later, all models of MacBook Air, and MacBook (Late 2009).
Shut down the computer.
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You can find the full article here:Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
Resetting NVRAM / PRAM
Shut down your Mac.
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About NVRAM and PRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
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Try resetting the SMC to see if that helps any:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
~Lyssa

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PS:
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