[neil still building it]

hi bernie
sounds to me as though you've lost your EARTH big time....the power will then route through bulbs etc giving you a 'false live' if you try flashing an earth across these earth connections you should see a light or whatever come on...hopefully only a wire or connector 'tugged 'out when you shuffled it about with the body fitting exercise.try switching on an indicator or hazards and providing an earth via a long cable etc to confirm......
neil