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I’m confused. Yes, it is a little tricky to move those primary leads in the rubber connector, but it can be done. They make, or you could make jumper leads with the pins/sockets so you can swap the leads without pushing the pins out of the rubber connectors.
But then it seems like you go on to say that you DID move the leads, and when you did the opposite cylinder lost spark. This would indicate that both coils sparked when you connected each one to the good primary lead coming from the pack. If I have this right, that usually indicates a bad power pack/CDI unit.
Nonetheless, all of the other components should be checked as well. Marginal components/connections might have caused the powerpack/CDI to fail, you don’t want the new powerpack to prematurely fail as well.