As soon as I hit send on that last rant of mine I went back to my open MACH3 program and just for kicks I tried to jog the machine around one last time before I shut it down for the night and it worked! I know this may sound crazy, but I had a lamp setting next to my microstepper driver for the Y axis (because I was double checking wires and dipswitches). It's a 100 wat bulb that gets pretty hot and I think that made it work again. have you ever heard of anything like this? Too strange! I'll go ahead and shut it down and see if decides to work in the morning, if not I'll try to heat it up again. Have a great night!