Hey Ken,
out of curiosity, and completely with no ill intent implied, are you still under the impression that the old mallory/mopar distributor is not at all the cause of any of these issues? I though you were one of the few who made a non MSD type distributor work with the timing control? I have my own friendly opinion about trying to use that distributor, but i thought you had it working with the timing? I only caught one post between the one above and your last, and it appeared you went from working ok with timing, to a bad ecu, to now no timing control? I just like to investigate these issues myself a bit to better answer questions, and for my own knowledge.
Only other thing i'd like to point out for the masses is that by "mopar performance distributor" you are referring to a mallory type that they used to re-badge....NOT a stock style distributor like the PROFORM kit that is basically nothing more than a stock unit...correct?
thanks Ken, I hope you work out the issues regardless.