Thanks for the follow up post - it's how a lot of us learn.
Something I learned from listening to Click and Clack on Car Talk radio
years ago, is that when screwy things happen and there doesn't seem to be a
consistency to an electrical problem, it's almost always a grounding
problem.

"T39" wrote in message
oups.com...
The multi-meter definitely put me on the right track. It turned out
that the ground wire was causing all the problems. My hot wire was
good, but when I traced my ground wire back to the negative end I found
a big break in the wire. The reason I didn't find out about this
earlier is because it was behind all the gauges and stuff where it was
tore up. I had to literally take everything apart to find out where it
was messed up.

I replaced the ground and things are working great now. Thanks a lot
everyone for your help. It is greatly appreciated!