Problem solved!!! It wasn't the pickup coil after all. Well, it kinda was. Got up early this morning and took things apart til I got to the pickup coil and, just for sh*ts and grins, I ohmed out the pickup coil itself. And it was good!! So I checked the resistance at the plug again and just like before, it was bad. So a bad wire??? Cut the plug off and checked the reading on just the wires and it was good!! So all this time I had a bad connection at or in the plug!!! Put everything back together (used high temp RTV as a gasket) and installed new spade-type connecters on the pickup coil wires, changed the oil filter and filled it with oil and hit the starter........And she fired right up!!! Right away it sounded better just at idle. Had to wait a couple of hours to take it for a test ride, but I just got back and it's running great!! Better than it has in a while it seems. So a bad electrical connection caused all this trouble!!! Oh well... At least it was an easy fix (just aggrivating figuring it out!) and it's back up and running.

Thanks for everyone's help and input!!

Back In The Wind!!
Aaron