So I acquired a receiver pack from one of the guys at work who has nitro cars, put 4 brand new AA battery's in it, plugged it into my brand new receiver into the port the esc normally plugs into and same problem with the steering.

Could it really be that my transmitter is bad??? It's a $300 transmitter!!! It worked perfectly fine before swapping over to this car how does a transmitter just go bad like that!?! It has to be right because the speed control was completely eliminated, the receiver is brand new and it did the same thing with 2 different servos that I had laying around ughhhh