Wow! Gentlemen thank you for all of the good info. My suspicions had run with the bad ground crowd. Anyway...yesterday they decided that the battery had been weakened charge wise from all of the problems and put a long slow - hopefully full charge into it. Then they did the full run up of diagnostics and everything checked out fine. No unexplained current draw, full factory specs on the charge rate, voltage etc.. They kept it overnight and got the same results later this morning, pronounced it healed and sent me on my way ....no charge (pun intended).

I am still not convinced they have fixed anything but will see what happens. The story by Phillips7609 sounds awfully close to what is happening under my hood. Hmmmmmm, I'll keep everyone posted but it will be a couple of weeks before I know anything as we are leaving for a week of RV'n in the White Mountains in my buddies RV. I should have come here with my questions in the first place. You guys are the best. Thanks again one and all!