I have achieved A/C again! Thanks for all the help, guys.

I ended up proceeding with the coil swap. The bad compressor with the good coil I had on my workbench was really, really hard to get apart. Everything that was supposed to come off easily had to be hit pretty hard repeatedly, leaving me to wonder whether I was doing something wrong. I concluded there was no way I would accomplish that again on the compressor on the car without taking it out, so I did. Of course, once out, it came apart 100 times easier than the first one...everything just slid right off. The bad coil didn't look all that bad. And the good coil didn't look all that good. But I put the good compressor back together with the known good coil and a mix-n-match of the better looking of the two pulleys and clutches. And Voila! Works perfectly. Thanks again!

Willis