Ok from reading a bunch of posts on the sight hear, The ignition keys do not have to be reprogramed. Also I found a post ware a member managed to salvage his old steering lock mech. I fixed a bit of the grammar not that mine is much better.
"I had experienced same problem , steering wheel lock, could not start or take out of gear. Mine was 2008 gas v6 model. It was the motor that was stuck to release the pin from steering column, was not turning because cam gear made of plastic was stuck. This is located and mounted to steering column, its also riveted to column.
Looking from bottom you will see a plug that has 4 wires, it's on the side of the motor which is in cased in soft metal casing. Looking at the front part of this you will notice a round circle shape, this is where the plastic cam gear is located that is stuck. When you insert you key it senses the chip in your key ring around your key hole. This is your antenna, it sends a signal from your key to the module which causes it to unlock the pin in steering column.
Then the kick will turn to start Van. When this does not work you will hear a small click coming from motor mounted to steering column, this is "very important that you hear this clicking sound" because if you don' t you may have other issues. I was able to repair this by purchasing a small metal cutter wheel attach to my drill. The cover over the cam gear needs to be cut off, only one side. There are four pins pushed in around this cam gear cover. Only cut cam gear cover on left side - towards the front of van. Be careful to cut just behind the edge of gear cover less 1/4 inch. You do not want to cut into the plastic cam gear, pay close attention to cutting the top, because it is closer to cam gear tan the bottom.
Once I cut the back end of cam gear cover, I was able to slip cover back with small screw driver to get the two front pins to slip out. Be careful at this point because the plastic cam gear is under spring tension and it will spring out. I just put my finger in the middle to hold cam gear and rotate it slightly pressing back up to seat gear groves on motor shaft gear. While holding tension in the middle of cam gear with my left hand, I stuck my key in and saw motor turn, then i turn my key and "VAN STARTED" .
To put back together I removed the front two sliding pins closets to the plug and found two small coarse screws and treading them in to replace the two pins. For the two back pins that was cut off, I tied a tie strap around the back part. And put all my covers back together. Its been 1 year and 7 months, and still working. This is common failure usually caused by parking against curb with wheel turned to left or right. So stay of curb and keep you steering wheel straight will help from cam gear getting stuck.
After so many times it eats the edge of plastic cam gear teeth. Also when I did this I notice i could hear the cam gear motor spinning and not unlocking pin. So I remove cover and rotate gear until it corrected this, It took a few tries until it was normal. When I inquired about cost to do this work, $2200 steering column with ignition module , recoding key, labor. My cost 2 screws, 1 tie strap, metal cutting wheel Total $6.00 / I will post photos once I figure out how to resize photos , new Mac not familiar with system - don't have paint as with my pc. Hope this helps someone..... John"
There was also this blog post hear.
http://rvtalk.blogspot.ca/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=50
With mine i'am 99% positive my is stripped/jammed. Today I parked on a hill with my front wheels turned in. and then I had problems. But before that I had 3-4 times I had to wiggle the steering wheel back and forth the get ignition to turn all, there was some nasty clicking bussing noises as well.. Also my remote door locking was acting real fussy too another sign I read that's related to this module device.
I just might try and get this small cover off above the gear and try and get the steering unlock so I can get the tires straight if I do decide to get it towed to dealer or not.