so as the title says I can take the keys out of my car and the car stays on? Now to roll the windows up or pop the trunk I have to turn the key to the on position.
Can someone instruct me on what part to start switching?
Yep. I think it's an $11 part, very easy to fix. You just take off the column cover and there's a harness under the key that plugs into it. It has this mechanism that slides back and forth to the "run/start/accessory" positions that the key switches to and over time it gets so wore out that it either doesn't work anymore or it sticks.