[phaques]

I think I may have found a possible solution...I pulled the distributor cap, just to be sure, and the end of the rotor is a grey, charred stub with no portion of the metal contact visible at all...flakes of the plastic rotor head are sitting in the distributor, and the contacts on the cap are heavily worn....maybe this is it all along? I've got new cap and rotor coming in tomorrow, and my fingers are crossed...