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For grins, I rolled my other car in the driveway and connected the jumper cables. No improvement. The wheel turns freely as the key is not in the locked position and turns freely. If it were not for the lights, horns, door locks and even the garage door opener working, it has all the appearance of a completely dead or disconnected battery. Looking at the instrument panel completely dead and absolutely no indication at all truning the key it seems that there is a lock out of some sort or the mother of all bad connections.

Glad the problem showed up now as we were going camping in the desert next weekend. We typically go deep desert so any mechanical problems is a bugger to resolve. You ought see a Hummer going down a 50 ft sand dune slip face. A real heart stopper.