This is contagious, I just replaced my muffler and figured I would check the actuator, it's NG. I took it apart and it's like brand new outside and inside, no burn smell either and the lube looks new. The bike always ran good and there is no CEL. checked all the electric as best I could and seems to be all good. I bought it with 4200 miles and it is completely stock. Now it's got me wondering if it ever worked at all, I seem to remember checking it a few years back but I'm getting old so who knows ? Both the new to me special ops and old original muffler valves turn freely by hand so it was a bit of a shock when it didn't work. I tried jumping it directly but no good, kind of pisses me off when stuff doesn't make sense.
I have the 08 shop manual with the schematic but for some reason it only shows the Japan version which only shows 3 wires. The throttle position sensor must have something to do with the actuator otherwise how would it know when your at full throttle, sucks when your not good with electric.
Oh well I guess I'll go the Doorman route too, I hope it works.