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<02> electrical problems

Hi all once again,
new problem, hoping someone can help.  After pulling out the Behr ac out of
my car, I found that the starter won't engage.  It's working the soelniod,
(after changing the starter, no help) and has plenty of juice to it.  I
tried putting jumper cables directly onto the starter lug and that worked
ONCE.  Upon further inspection, I noticed with the ignition in start pos. I
have somewhere around 9.5 b+ to the Block!  I noticed this when I burnt my
arm on the throttle return spring.  Huh? you ask??  What the #$%@ is going
on here is what I thought.  So now, the entire dash is ripped appart and I
can't find anything wrong there or under the hood. 
It seems like it's just getting enough power to activate the soelniod but
the juice it needs to 
crank over is going to the block. 
After writing all of this, I'm thinking that the block isn't grounded.  It
was grounded from the a/c compresser (battery is in the trunk and grounded
to the frame.) as far as I can think, the only place the engine /
drivetrain doesn't have rubber mounts somewhere is the throttle linkage by
the gas pedal. and I'm not too sure about that.  Am i grasping at straws??
Please help
TIA for ANY ideas...

TK Gustafson
carrion@domain.elided
2  '76  '02's