... That was all I had to do?

[A Black Falcon]

There's a reason why pretty much no other controller (except for some handhelds) put the start button(s) under the dpad/analog stick, and that's because it's a really weird design decision that doesn't work well at all compared to the usual "put them in the middle" design...

And as for black/white, the recessing of the buttons is one problem, but the bigger one was moving them! On the original controller, they're slightly offset, but are in a reasonable place for 6-face-button gamepad buttons. It's a good 6-face button gamepad. The S, however, completely messes things up by moving them down into the corner. Whatever Microsoft was thinking there, it was stupid and wrong. Of course though, I'm still a definite proponent of 6 face buttons over four...

On that note, there's a 6 face button analog Xbox 360 controller, the Hori Pad EX 2 Turbo. It's not sold new anymore, but you can get them on ebay. I'll have to get one!