Update:
I did some more research and it seemed that my symptoms related to a lot of the bad CPS stories. Since it's cheaper than a new battery and they seem to go bad quite often I replaced the CPS, crossed my fingers and drove the car to work the next day. It seemed fine but I did notice that at an idle the instrument lights were flickering a bit so I thought just to be safe maybe I'd better replace the battery also. I drive right through the heart of downtown Detroit every day and don't really want to wind up on the side of the road somewhere. My radar detector has a feature that registers the cars voltage and when I backed in the garage that evening I noticed it said "Low Battery". I picked up a battery at Walmart that night and dropped it in. No more instrument light flicker and it has been a couple of days now and the car seems fine. I do still have one symtom remaining, I'm getting a occasional temperature light that appears and will then go off again but it doesn't seem to agree with what the gage is reading. I'm not sure if maybe this is a sending unit going or something????
Thanks again guys for all the input I received while trying to solve this issue.