I used all the methods you outlined for the Svea. The genie method only worked for me once. Mostly I used the eyedropper or the small scrap of paper method. I still have my original Svea and use it every-once-and-a-while. It is a great stove.

Colin Fletcher's Complete Walker got me started with this stove and he outlined the various starting methods in the versions of this book.

Back on the little match-lighter. Looked over at Ebay and they are there under Metal Match but expensive compared to the list price for the Coghlan's Emergency Tinder Kit.

I had one of these as a kid and it worked well for my budding pyro needs. Only thing was holding the match part got a bit warm after a while. I will have to look for my old one....my guess is the striker bar is probably shot.