Yes, we've had two of them go in PNWX, both early 2000's same color, and both were replaced at 80K miles, though problems started probably 10K before that. There have been others... do a search in the problems forum. Ours were synchros and (I think) bearings though... sounds like you have a different kind of failure unless you had synchro and bearing problems before and didn't know it.

Did you ever change your own gear oil? If you had little teeth come out when changing then yours started out with synchro failure.

I have one of them here to tear apart and see exactly what happened.