Though I'm sure it was meant for the best, I wouldn't recommend using bug spray near the tablet. That stench can stay for dayyyyssss. Unless you use one of those odorless ones, I guess you could give it a shot (leaving it in the same room [a cardboard box] as the sprayed spot). How is the performance on the tablet? Any changes?

Colorado is for the most part dry, isn't it? Though admitidly I don't know much about the rockies.

I think what could help the most is if you were to "analyze" what type of liquid/substance it is. I'm no professional on how to do it (and I wouldn't recommend tasting it!) but smell... look... i don't know. At least if you could find a way from differentiating an organic compound from a synthetic one it would be a big boost to your investigation.