Thanks for the fabulous advice. Luckily my special lady friend already mocks my fine oil burner without me giving it a suckjob.
I've been using a hand vacuum pump and a separate gauge to try an track down the vacuum leak starting from the vacuum pump itself, which is pulling 22mmHg before it splits for the first time. There is less and less pressure as it splits more and at the yellow lines, on the floor drivers side, the vacuum is barely 2mmHg at a two way split (yellow hoses, one set red striped one green striped.)
A PO had replaced the shutoff. I tried attaching the hand pump to the shutoff valve while running then pumping the hand pump thinking the vacuum would shutoff the engine, it did not. Does this indicate a bad shutoff valve? How often do those go out? Is once every other year too often and indicative of another problem?
Where in the central locking system, other than the ignition which is holding pressure, are likely places to leak? All the doors lock themselves when the driver's door is locked with the engine running, just very sluggishly.
Is the only way to find my leak to take all the door panels off and just keep working my way back?
A guy can only handle so much sucking.