Great info! Thank you, my friend. I'll take this along to my brother's tomorrow. Yeah, it's a long drive, but so far, only that one fuse has been blowing, so I'm thinking (hoping) the short is restricted to one of the areas you mention.

I have the service manual in PDF format, which I'll take along with me for him to review.

Not knowing zip about electrical systems, let along the spaghetti inside the Crossfire, I'm still wondering if the "Console Switch Group" might be the culprit, only because in addition to that one fuse, I had the issue with the 15A under the hood (#36 I believe) regarding the FOB transmitting the lock/unlock codes. But I'm just guessing there. Nothing ever seems as easy as it should be....

Thanks again! I'll post an update Sunday or Monday after seeing what he can find. It may require the dealer after all, but as I mentioned he's great with electrical systems in cars, so I'm hopeful (or I wouldn't be making the drive up there...)

Mark