Sounds a bit like one of those late night cable programs "When Good Snakes Go Bad" :-)
We have discussed this topic on here a number of times, and one thing that usually comes up is how you get the stuff off. There's a switcher that I do which has a pair of small radial electrolytics 'folded over' and glued down on top of a whole bunch of surface mount components on the small drive / control sub-board. Some of the components that are under the glue run quite hot - a zener for instance - and this has a double whammy effect on the board in that first it turns the glue brown, which then becomes conductive, and then it also does a nice job of conducting the heat into the caps, to ultimately twat those as well.
The glue gets right down between the pins of the PWM / driver IC amongst other places, and is an absolute bitch to remove, without damaging assorted gnat's-bollock sized support components in the vicinity.
Well, today, quite by accident, I discovered that my favoured flux removal chemical - Servisol Deflux 160 aerosol - does a nice job of softening the glue up. Not quite to the point of actually dissolving it, but enough that it can then be fairly easily picked off with a fine scalpel blade, and then scrubbed off with an old toothbrush, once you've got the thick of it off.
Arfa