Er. Edit - sorry, I apparently can't read whole posts. Ha! Skimmed right over the fuel pressure section.
Failing fuel pump, or bad fuel filter/regulator, restriction in fuel line? I'm *certainly* no mechanic but I look at the obvious from both sides of the equation first: The engine is getting air that isn't metered (vacuum leak, bad MAF), exhaust that isn't measured (exhaust leak, bad O2 sensor) or, since you've ruled those out, fuel needed. In my experience with other vehicles the 3 starts/30 miles is about enough time for most of the OBDII tests to complete.
Great thoughts xme, checked gas cap it was tight and the gasket was good. Just got back from a 3 start 40 mile sprint and NO CEL!!! I'm back with a permasmirk right now. We'll see what happens tomorrow.
Thinking that osfast may get the golden wrench award for this one even though I was all over it. If the CEL comes back on tomorrow the golden wrench award will have to be returned
Keeping my fingers crossed, pun intended.
Thanks guys.