Thanks for the input avguy. The battery has been kind of my focus at the moment, that seems to be the cheapest and easiest starting point for the diagnostic work although I haven't really had much time to work on it. I hooked up to a battery charger last night for a couple hours and it went from 11.7V to 12.1V pretty quick but then stalled out there. After the couple hours, I pulled the charger and tried starting it with no luck. So, I disconnected the battery from the car and threw the trickle charger on it since I won't have time to work on it until this weekend. As of this morning, the trickle charger is still indicating that it's charging which seems a little odd. I figured with a good 10 hours, it would've been fully charged. In any case, I think the battery needs to go and get tested which I'll do probably Saturday as it turns out, the battery is 4.5 years old and probably due to be changed anyway. I was planning on checking the grounds as well and I like your jumper idea and will give that a shot too.

I picked up a code reader yesterday and plugged that in quick too. I got 2 codes, P0014 and P0420.

P0014: "is a generic code that the engine module (ECM) has determined that the bank 1 exhaust camshaft is more advanced than what the ECM has commanded it to be...".

Being that I knew of the cam sensor was going bad to begin with, am I correct in assuming that that's a faulty signal (the advanced timing) from the bad sensor? If so, that does seem like a likely culprit to shut the ignition down.

P0420: pretty much saying the catalytic converter is no longer functioning or possibly the O2 sensor is bad. I'm thinking those wouldn't cause the ignition to shut down although they will need to be addressed at some point in the near future...

Thanks again for the input and any additional input will be appreciated.

Chris