[cooldaddysquid]

Alright. I think I've solved the problem. Again, this stems from a severe lack of knowledge on all things electrical, but presuming the following:

1. All wires at the top of the block provide power from the battery.
2. All wires at the bottom of the block provide the hot lead to the car's various components.

And noting the following troubleshooting steps:

1. The AC line running to the bottom of the fuse block had two wires twisted together. One is the AC blower. I am uncertain what the second one does. I untwisted them, and removed the headlight cleaner line at fuse position 3 and am using it for the second wire now. There is also a loose wire. I am unsure as to whether it's been like this since I bought the car, or if it became loose during this troubleshooting process. Nevertheless, there is no room on the block for it.

During this process, I noticed that the AC fuse had a power line in the top of it AND a brass coupler that lead to fuse position 3 (which in turn had another brass coupler that led to fuse position 4 which also had a power line in it.) That led me to believe that the AC was getting double power. So basically, the top of the fuse block looked like this (I can provide pictures if necessary):

*Fuse 1*Fuse 2___Fuse 3___*Fuse4 (Where * is a line from the battery and ___ is a brass coupler )

Once I removed the brass coupler from Fuse 2 to Fuse 3, everything stopped melting.

However! I'm now faced with 2 new problems:

1. The AC is not as cool. It's not blowing hot, but it sure isn't all that cool. Maybe it was my imagination. I mean, it IS summer in Texas, and I've got black leather interior. I'm willing to admit that this is on me.

2. The car runs hot. I was driving around residential streets, and the temperature gauge got up to the third tick mark (roughly 10 o'clock.). Again, this is Texas in the summertime, but the previous owner stated that the car didn't overheat. This has only happened once before, and it was in similar conditions, except I had melting fuses. This was back when the two wires were twisted together and in fuse position 2. My thinking at the time was that one line was a cooling fan, and the fuse trouble was the culprit. Now, I have no idea.

3. What's up with that loose wire? Is there any easy way to trace these lines?

Thoughts?

Thanks again for all of your valuable feedback!