thanks for the all the help, it appears (no surprise now) that the starter button is a little dodgy. This morning before work, I took an emory board outside to clean up the solder posts on the back of the starter button, to make sure the multi-meter leads would have good connection, and the thing started to work, with and without a screwdriver jumper. There's a guy on the rat.net that's parting out an America, so I'll see if I can grab the whole switch assembly from him. Thanks again for all the help and support guys!
