[italianguy63]

Thanks to you all-- you are too kind really!!

Thanks for all the help Marc! (Mr. Incredible)-- you truely are incredible. If you guys knew some of the technical ideas we were throwing back and forth.. it was amazing. It is too bad the ultimate solution ended up being kind of a "brute force" answer. But hey, it worked right?!

I re-edited the original post to make some points slightly more understandable. Such as the resistors/ballasts-- I don't have them on right now, but will do this later... I know adding them will stop the "fast flash," but it doesn't really hurt anything.

I also took a before/after picture... and I added a couple more here because I could only use 5 on the original post.

I know some think the silver is "ricey"-- but I like the silver on silver all the way around.

MC