I talked to Amazon again since it's obvious Bethesda isn't going to honor any actual warranty on their products, and was curious if there was anything new from them since a lot of people online apparently have this problem. Amazon said I could return the whole collectors edition and get my full money back even though I redeemed the game on Steam already or I could take a $40 partial refund and keep it as is. I still feel the devs have done a great job making the game and I'd at least like to support them so I stuck with just the $40 off. Figure someday once college-work and work-work calm down I can take it apart and try to fix it permanently.
So if anybody else is disappointed they might want to talk to Amazon if they ordered from there.