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Ok, riddle me this. Could it be something that caused the igniter to put too much spark to the plugs to burn them? Like the pick up coil?

The pick up coil is simply a hall effects switch ( off/on off/on) that sends a pulse to the igniter.. or more accurately, 3 pulses to the igniter when each cylinder reaches top dead center, the igniter in turn provides a ground to the coil allowing it to discharge voltage to the wires/plugs.