That does suck!. Can I recommend that when you get your new transistors get a pcb style board with the holes all punched in it. mount your transistors on it and clean up your circuit as much as possible, keeping connections as far away from each other as possible. Perhaps there is a short somewhere and this makes things easier to track down. Nice setup otherwise, bet that rotor gets up to speed!

Hang in there, I know how you feel, I have a pile of toasted components here too Consider moving up to the mjl21194 transistors as well, or though you'll be crying harder if you fry them at 5-10 bucks a pop. If your local store doesnt have any more 2n3055s there are other similar subistutes.