locking me out... Options

[eclipse_04a]

ok, well my car has picked up a bad habbit. I think the grand prix it parks next to must be a bad influence.... Anyways, when the car is unlocked, and i use the door handle to open the car, it locks itself. It will open about 3/4 of an inch and then it wont go any farther. even if the door is open, and i pull up on the door handle, you can watch the lock on the inside flip fowards. the only way i can get into my car is to hold the key turned in the lock while I pull up on the door handle. has anyone ever heard of something like this happening? I did find a nice feature about the locks though, If I unlock the door, then turn the key to unlock again, it will unlock the passenger door as well.

[azian_advanced]

i had that happening on my 4th gen last year when i was hooking up a key-less entry system to it. i somehow got the locks randomly locking and unlocking. it then went nuts and burned/overheated my door handle actuator/coil. my uncle figured out a relay was needed on the power wire of the coil, and so he put it in and all was fine. what i don't get is how it started doing that in the first place cuz it was all fine at first, then went crazy after.