You do NOT have to connect the Power Attn wire on the tuner module to anything in the Ody

Right - I was wayyy off on that. That Power Antenna wire isn't connected to squat right now. All's well and nothing has been smoked to a crisp.

(Oh, Hi back from VT. got lots of baby gifts)

Oh really now ... congrats are in order then? Yay!

... position of the tuner module in the car means everything when it comes to getting good reception.

Apparently. Right now the tuner is NOT where I put it at first (which was above the pull out tray). I think that's probably a lousy place for it in any event. That and you managed to get it on the right side of the pull out tray. Speaking of which, BTW, I wasn't able to do that, even with the extension, but I'm going to try again, VERY GENTLY.