So I got after it after work tonight and crimped the B+ connection a little righter. It was still having the same issue with it making contact and blowing the main fuse - OR SO I THOUGHT.....
I started pulling the harness to send it in for an RMA. While I was trying to pull the O2 sensor wire, I found that I had ANOTHER bundle of wires running down that direction. It turned out to be the coil connector from the harness and it was melted to one of the header tubes. That explains why it ran and then didn't anymore.
I paid no attention to that circuit as I was going over the harness again and again and again and, since it was between the header and the tunnel, it was kind of "out of sight out of mind." So once I got that pulled up, cut the wires and applied heat shrink, zip tied them up and out of the way, then reconnected everything else, it fired up. Now on to trying to get it set up and running properly again.....