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I've done some more experiments. Perhaps my results can point someone in the right direction of what may be wrong:

1) if I turn the key just to the acc position, the key does not get stuck. It only gets stuck once I put it in the run position regardless if I go the extras position of start.

2) when I put the truck into run position I get a slight humming/buzz from the onstar speaker (or mic) right above the drivers seat?? This stops if I am only in the acc position or obviously in the off

3) when I go into run position (before going to start), I get the DIC information saying Driver1 and all elec is on including the headlights (if dark outside) or the drl - once I put/hold key in the start position (with no cranking) the headlights and drl go off along with DIC but the radio, inside lights, etc still remain on - once I givbe up and put the key back into run position the headlights and drl go back on and so does the DIC again telling me Driver 1 (almost like it just got power for the first time).

Could it be a fuse issue??? Could it be a Passlock issue (perhaps I pinched one of the small wires near the ignition switch when I first replaced it)???

Lastly, when it first happened and the wife called BCAA (while I was away golfing), the tow truck driver apparently first tried to jump the H2 (although my wife told them it was not battery related). Shortly after connecting the cables I was told by my wife and neighbour that something started to smoke quite a bit from the H2 engine area, and my neighbour told me that the driver then switched the cables. I think the idiot corss the jumper cables and put pos to neg and neg to pos. Could that have damaged something??? I doiubt it being that before that even happened, I had a H2 which had a sporatic starting problem for the last 10 days and then eventually a totally non starting one, and the fact that after I swapped the starter today I was able to start it twice (if the crossed wires did something I would expect that I would not have been able to start it today at all).

Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking of removing the shift assembly tomorrow to see if any wires appear broken - apparently this could cause the brain to think the trans in drive and prevent starting and sometimes prevent key from removal.

Thanks