UPDATE: well, I'm still baffled as to what's causing this. Since i last posted, i've reset the computer, adjusted/reset the TV Link, and dropped the pan. The fluid was burnt (smell), but no containments, nor did i see any signs of metal in the pan. The filter also showed no signs of metal. But i went ahead and replaced the filter and fluid anyway. This makes me thing that perhaps i didn't burn out a clutch pack or cause any other internal damage, but i still can't find an explanation.

question, what would cause rapid RPM drop when you let off the accelerater (at any speed) such as i described earlier? I'm talking if i'm going 45mph let of the gas, engine RPMS drop to >1k. press the gas again and the RPMS have to climb to 2-3k before i get any power. is that a torque converter thing?

I *think* i did manage to get it to hit all 3 gears while driving today... though its really hard to get it to shift into 3rd. I think all the gears are there, just shifting is really mess up.

I was told the only things that could effect shifting in an auto tranny are the TV link (sometimes occpanied with a vaccum line that does upshifting and the TV just does downshifting, but not in my case) *OR* internel problem with the clutch packs as in i burnt one up. Make sense? or could there be more possible causes?

Any more thoughts? I'm fastly becoming a strong opponient of the automatic transmission.
I appriciate you guys advice <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

-Rob