Yeah, I'd like to think so ... lol
I've pretty much learned to do everything on a Ranger myself.
I hope I'm able to start the truck when I get the new 3.0 installed and hooked back up. I would hate to pull that dash out again.

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2004 black Ranger XLT- Sold
2004 Vista blue 2WD(custom paint job)Ranger XLT 4-door ext. cab with the 3.slow and auto trans black and blue FX4 Level II bucket seats with shorty console
2004 DSG FX4 with a 5R55E auto trans and 4:10 gears-Sold
2010 Redfire Metallic 2WD Ranger XLT,4-door ext. cab, 4.0 SOHC with auto trans, SLA front sus. traction control, Sirius Satellite radio and 3:55 gears
2003 red Ranger Edge 4X4, 4-door ext. cab -4.0 SOHC with a 5R55E auto trans

Update ... My truck won't start through the ignition just as I suspected ... It starts up just fine when I bypass the ignition.
Can someone please tell me from the my pics what I done wrong or what I'm missing?

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2004 black Ranger XLT- Sold
2004 Vista blue 2WD(custom paint job)Ranger XLT 4-door ext. cab with the 3.slow and auto trans black and blue FX4 Level II bucket seats with shorty console
2004 DSG FX4 with a 5R55E auto trans and 4:10 gears-Sold
2010 Redfire Metallic 2WD Ranger XLT,4-door ext. cab, 4.0 SOHC with auto trans, SLA front sus. traction control, Sirius Satellite radio and 3:55 gears
2003 red Ranger Edge 4X4, 4-door ext. cab -4.0 SOHC with a 5R55E auto trans

Not sure how you're bypassing the ignition but I would start with a multimeter to see how things worked before and how they work now. Somewhere there is a connection that isn't being made the way it used to. Maybe someone that has more knowledge of factory wiring can chime in with a better answer, unfortunately it's a bit hard to tell without having done the conversion the way you did it.

I'm bypassing the ignition by taking the black square fuse in the very back (not sure which # it is) out of the fuse box under the hood and then using a jumper wire to make a connection.
That fuse that I'm removing isn't bad because I've tested it. This is one of the strangest wiring problems I've ever run into.

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2004 black Ranger XLT- Sold
2004 Vista blue 2WD(custom paint job)Ranger XLT 4-door ext. cab with the 3.slow and auto trans black and blue FX4 Level II bucket seats with shorty console
2004 DSG FX4 with a 5R55E auto trans and 4:10 gears-Sold
2010 Redfire Metallic 2WD Ranger XLT,4-door ext. cab, 4.0 SOHC with auto trans, SLA front sus. traction control, Sirius Satellite radio and 3:55 gears
2003 red Ranger Edge 4X4, 4-door ext. cab -4.0 SOHC with a 5R55E auto trans

Sounds like you aren't getting power to that line the fuse connects. You said you have to use a jumper wire, that means you grabbed power from somewhere else correct? Follow the fuse back to the power source and see where it goes. If you have a multimeter you can check to see if it's making connection from the other end before physically tracing it back.