starter probs?, hard to explain Options

[xXMindFreakXx]

so basically the car was running good then now i have a power draw somewhere so i found out that if i pull the dome fuse everythings good iono where it would be havent had time to look but after that the car starting acting really weird i started it so let it charge up the batt and it shut off i go out there and the whole started is burnt so i put in a new one and it wont start unless i jump it... then it wants to smoke down there so now i cant run the car... so then the car wants to start on the ON poss and i dont have to push in the clutch then the check engine light comes on so i try to figured out what thats all about and all it dose when i jump it with the good ol paper clip it just blinks and not one pause at all wtf is going on with that damn think fine one day then the next lots of probs

[95CelicaST]

Ah, you're in puyallup. I'm just down 410 in enumclaw.

So let me get this straight - you turn the key to ON and it starts? And it wasn't doing this before you started chacking for shorts? What all did you check? Are all of the fuses inside the dash fine? I would start by checking every fuse. Just because they look good doesn't mean they are.