Now that is it running, I would bone up on how to read the codes. It was probably giving you a code 18, or some other code related to that. The computer looks at the pulse train from the distributor, and uses that to adjust the timing. If it see's this pulse train suddenly missing, it will spit out a code.

The codes are not the "tell all" fix this and it will work. But they give good hints in the over all picture of the problem.