Warren,
If you are the president then I must at least be Vice President.
Tru sounds as if he may have hit on the problem. God, I hate tearing into the inside of any of those messes. Springs explode all over the place, small screws vanish into thin air, and I lost the steering wheel last time. I have a 3 way switch in my dash that I rewired, but it basically does what your does. That is why I started jumping around the collum until I found the bad connector as I did not want to get into it unless it was a last resort. And I added an extra relay that I can just plug into in a couple of seconds in case the other one goes bad.
Ron