it's officialy n00b day
the trouble you are having is normal, and you wil idealy need a pair of tweezers to put the pin in place, and your pick to hold the pins down untill you can use a
PLUG FOLLOWER to keep the pins held down it place.
start from the furthest pins back you want to put in, and position the springs with tweezers, then put it in the hole. Pick up a top pin with your twezers, and put it onto the hole with your spring in - holding the pin aligned to the hole push down the pin into the lock housing, and keep it held there untill you can slide the pug follower over it.
Once all of the pins and springs are held down by the plug follower, you need to put the bottom pins into the plug correspoding to thetop pins, turn the cylinder about 12 degrees from it's neutral position (this will stop disaster trust me)... push the plug follower out from behind with the plug (still turned slightly) untill the plug follower falls out the other end. Now comes the easy bit - turn the plug back to it's neutral position, and you should hear clicks as the pins go to their correct positions.
Pat yourself on the shoulder, and have a pint - you have just repinned you lock
p.s: a plug folower is a solid cylindrical (round) shape, the exact same size as the plug - you can either make one out of some wood (my favourite) or get a pencil, and wrap it in electrical tape untill it's the same some as the plug.
I didn't even flame this time
