UPDATE!!!

Car is repaired! It was the coil! A MB mechanic told my dad to check the coil. He put one off of my old station wagon on it just to see if it would start and it did and ran perfectly.... then he went and bought a brand new one for that car and the car has ran all day.... no problems. The other day some mechanic came to inspect and it idled fine for 20 minutes, but then when given acceleration, it would miss and stall. Not anymore. Strange, I never dreamed it was the coil.

Someone had been helping themselves to the gas though... I had filled it up the day it broke down... then today when dad was working on it, the fuel gauge was down on "R" and the low fuel warning light was illuminated! We live in a rural neighborhood, mostly older folk, but apparently some hooligans or some grandkids of these people needed gas. Dad drove it to the filling station and it held about 20 gallons. Can you imagine?

Oh well, still need to get those plugs replaced since apparently the ones on there are not the correct ones (resister plugs are in there now).

Thanks for all of the replies!