Just for the record, the mechanic at Empire did find the problem he was supposed to find and fairly quickly. He surmised that the corrosion in the kill switch connector cause a resistance in the circuit that "told" my bike that intermittently the kickstand was down and shut off the engine. That particular symptom didn't happen after I got the bike back. But it's odd that so many different electrical problems happened in such a short succession.
My bike ran so good after that he may have found a problem or two I didn't realize I had. The coil wire was an easy fix once found. But now I gotta wonder if there was a short that damaged other components or wiring. Or maybe there are more corroded connectors.
