Thanks for the input fellow forum members.
I pulled one of the distributor caps off and, well, to be honest, I don't know how the car even ran,,,
I suppose all the extra arcing may have affected the voltage system, throwing spikes and what nots with electrons flying around.
Even being as frugal as I am, I just couldn't (wouldn't) steel wool the contacts and test again,,,
I cannot believe that it's going to cost me $219 to replace the rotor and caps on this car, had I known the cost when I parted out that S500, I probably would have kept the caps and rotors from that beast,,,
Now just waiting for the parts to arrive from this forum's host.

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