New developments with ignition switch and or ECM.
After several days of knocking on wood, my head started hurting, but the situation is looking more like an ECM disconnect. Just guessing at this point:
Neither speedo nor tach sweeps occurred on my Monday morning (its been a very long weekend) startup attempt today. Though there was no sweeps I commenced to hit the starter button and it fired right up, then the sweeps then occurred. I again saw the same failure of the normal sweep action of the tach on my start up after work this evening; but no speedo sweep and the speedometer didn't register at all on the way home. I should point out, that the trip 1 and trip 2 readings are resetting to zero after each failure of the normal sweeps with initial ignition key on action.