Thank you for the replies, after much searching, not a small amount of bleeding and uttering a few curses that I haven’t used since I retired from the Navy i think I have found my ghost. While in name this car does not have a body control module, in practice it very much does. The interior fuse box is a lot more than a fuse box. This car was built in 01/08 if one were to look at the differences between this model , the 07 model and the 09 model, this model has much more in common with the 09. It does not have a stand alone DRL module, it’s functions have been added to the fuse box alone with the cluster lighting, dimmer, and fog lighting. They are switching grounds instead on hot and most cut outs have a reference voltage back to the fuse box.

I understand and the idea that the engineer was going for but it is a huge problem for many reason. Not the least of which is trying to power everything in the car with the exception of the engine from a circuit board that sees the full current flow.

there is no work around that I have found except to bite the bullet and replace the fuse box. Or add a secondary fuse box with the relays needed to take over the failed circuits.

While that is an option I’m not willing to do it. I briefly thought about setting up an arduino controller and going that direction and if were my car I probably would just because. But at this point I am going to find a fuse box or try to have the circuit board in this one reflowed.