Therefore, I had to use the process of elimination method to identify the pins.
I powered on the system by jumping every 2 pins on that header with the tip of a Philips screw driver until I located the "power on" pins (the power supply came on). Once I did that, I jumped the 2 pins with the corresponding "POWER SW" connector.
Next, without the hard drive connected to the MB, I took the "POWER LED" connector and jumped the rest of the pins until the LED illuminated on the front of my new case. Once that happened, I jumped the 2 pins with the corresponding "PW LED" connector.
Next, without the hard drive connected to the MOBO, I jumped the remaining pins with the "HDD LED" connector to ensure that the remaining pins will not illuminate the HDD LED on the front of the case. After doing so, I powered down the system, connected the hard drive to the MOBO and then powered on the system. You can use any method you want to initiate hard drive activity, but I chose to go to DOWNLOAD.COM. Once there, I found and downloaded a very, very large file. While the file was downloading, I jumped the remaining wires with the "HDD LED" switch until the light illuminated on the front panel of my new case.
Finally, I took the "RESET SW" connector and jumped the pins that were remaining. As I jumped each pin, I pressed the RESET button on the front of the case and the system failed to reboot on each of the remaining pins.......and yes, I reversed all of the pin connectors to determine the (+) and (-).
In conclusion, my diagram is not incorrect, it depends on the header setup that's present on your board. My diagram identifies the pins with that amount of pins present. Also, the way I described how to identify the location of each pin, should be very useful to those that have a motherboard and no case to help trace and identify the pins from the front panel connector. This goes for ANY motherboard.
For the record, I transferred my Dell Inspiron 620 motherboard to a Thermaltake V3 Black Edition case.
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