Well today I went out to remove the floor mounted headlight dimmer switch
that the dumb previous owner installed.  It had three wires going to it, a
white wire, a white wire with a black stripe, and a yellow wire with a black
stripe.  Now I'm pretty sure that these wires are supposed to run through
the steering column mounted turn signal / dimmer switch.  I know that the
headlights work (touching one of the wires to the white wire with a black
stripe turns on either the high or low beams), but I cannot get them to work
when hooked through the column mounted dimmer switch.  I know it is not the
dimmer / turn signal switch because that switch is new.  I can get the
running lights (everything but the headlights) to turn on by flipping the
switch on the gauge cluster.  Is there something I am missing?