I f*in hate this car.

Does your car have this connector between the distributor and coil?
I have seen these cars act just like you described because of an intermittant loss of connection at this plug.
Squeeze it down a little tighter and see if it does the trick.
When you said you heard a little "Tick" and it fired right up, that was why I mention this.
Mine went in the trash and is soldered and heat shrinked now, and never had that problem again.