Well the first good news is that my supervisor let me out early today so I was syched about getting a few extra hours of daylight to work on the bike.
Bad news, my wife had the car and she was online (dialup) and it took me half an hour to get ahold of her to come pick me up... then she has 3-4 errands that she needs to run before going home, so I get home only 10 minutes earlier then I would have if I left work on time>

Bad news, the bolts on the puller were to short, so HOME DEPOT bound I go.
Good news - I find the bolts right away and only spend like 3 bucks on them and the washers.
Good news - I fit everything up and start working on taking the flywheel off.
BAD NEWS - can't get the flywheel off, and the end of the puller (that my father-in-law said wouldn't get in towards the threads) gets stuck in the flywheel. I take the puller off and there is the end staring me in the face from the thread hole of the flywheel.
Good news - I got out the vise grips and yanked it out.
Slightly good news - didn't damage the threads, but the bolt goes in tighter then before.
Bad news - I am stumped on how to get the flywheel off. So I start looking at things more closely.
Good news - I notice that there are dents on the sides of the bolts for the starter clutch and that they are pretty much flush with the outter part of the threads. THEY ARE ALREADY PEENED!! It is amazing what you can notice when you are actually working in the daylight.
Bad news - I go to put everything back together for further testing and the gasket got ripped. I left it in the house in an area that the kids don't play in and it still got F@#KED UP

So I need to order a new gasket before I can do anything else.
Questions - So since the bolts are already peened over that is a pretty good indication that the fix has already been done. So what else could be going on to make the bike not start? Hear are the specs from the last testing:
battery charged to around 12 volts (jumping it from the car)
rebuilt starter with new guts and seal (no oil in it)
turn the ignition over and it wont engage the engine. (Starter is whirring away)

So what is going on with my bike?!? If my hair was longer (clipper cut (military)) then I would be pulling it out!