That is a good question about the ballast resistor and wiring.
If someone has modified the wiring, they likely did not do you any favors.
I would get the proper wiring diagram for your year and start there.
@Coolerman has some wiring diagrams available - pretty cool!
A couple of questions - what year is your Pig? I don't remember and it isn't in your signature.
When you say you flooded your ignition - what does that mean? Did you get the distributor wet? Did you get the plug wires wet? Back to the year question - I know a lot of the factory dizzys are...
Man, I love this post. First of all you are willing to dig in and do the work.
Second - it sounds like your problems were multi-factorial. You think fixing "A" is going to do the trick, and then Nope! Go chase down B and C... I have had projects like that.
The gratifying thing is all the other...